[OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?

[Suchith Anand]

Kiringai and all,

Thanks to all who send your feedbacks from different perspectives to my query.  Openness means being open to different perspectives ,ideas, viewpoints, cultures  and learning and improving to be a better human every day... We are all part of a big ecosystem all working for Geo. GeoForAll means Geo for All and we welcome everyone to be part of Openness in Education.  

The irony is that over 10 years back when i started putting my ideas and frameworks in place for Open Principles in Science and Education, some of the propertiery GIS vendors and thier supporters were laughing at me and doing thier best indirectly to stop me , but now it seems they are all working overtime trying to be Ambassodors of Openness!  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery . What amazing changes happening and OSGeo has done great work to accelerate the pace of Open in all directions.  I welcome all to be part of the Open movement. 

One thing is clear . The Future of Geo is Open. 

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: Kiringai Kamau <kiringai at gmail.com>
Sent: 23 March 2017 4:28 AM
To: Anand Suchith
Cc: discuss at lists.osgeo.org; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?

Dear Suchith,

My opinion is that OSGeo defines the value chain orientation of open software to ensure customers.

This will help customers to understand the elements/components that are/should be open and which are value added contributions of the vendor. All value added innovations of the vendor can/should be the revenue stream that the community can advocate for, and campaign against exploitation of those that unwittingly become targets of unscrupulous vendors.

We can then leave the space of determining the value of the value added contribution to the private treaty of the two with the vendors encouraged to charge based on the intensity of the value add...

If a subcommittee on value added innovations goes not exist, then it behaves us to create one...we do need this very much in Africa.

Kiringai


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On 22 Mar 2017, at 23:15, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:


Hi all,


I have a query. If a properitery GIS vendor starts marketing thier properitery products as Open platform and software then what rights do the organisations and customers have who are mislead buying the  properitery software thinking it is open have ?  The definision of Proprietary software [1] is very clearly defined, so  how can it be possible for any properitery GIS vendor to market their  software knowingly as open platform if it is properitery?


This also greatly affects the business and revenues of true open source software companies .  Who is responsible for any misleading marketing that results in losses to both customers who are mislead to buy the properitery software thinking it is open  and also to other companies who do true open source business who lose out on the business opportunities? Is it right business ethics to do this?


Best wishes,

Suchith


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software


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