[OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at crschmidt.net
Wed Sep 30 10:02:18 PDT 2009


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:36:35AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> That kind of high-touch approach will have to be left to those (like,
> hopefully OpenGeo) who are building and monetizing products around the
> core software. The non-profit core organization can't do that unless
> it's willing to become much more vendor-like, which is something OSGeo
> has repeatedly shied away from (perhaps because OSGeo has many members
> who work for companies, that, like OpenGeo, are monetizing open
> source).

(And Paul says in a paragraph what I say poorly in 10.)

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer



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