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<div class="">I’ve been following this thread and this does seem like a good way to address most if not all the thoughts.</div>
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<div class="">Another side to this would be in the ability to let the user(s) add to the keyword list of “other” geo products out there, whether FOSS or Prop. It would allow for a useability matrix to build up over time as well, maybe even going so far as
to grab a capabilities list of some sort from the users and consequently a mechanism for targeting new cabailities in the software being developed under the OSGeo banner based on these user capabilities/needs and a derived capability matrix.</div>
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<div class="">On Sep 21, 2017, at 4:04 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan <<a href="mailto:raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp" class="">raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Dear All,<br class="">
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If the aim is only to help new users who are not aware of<br class="">
Free and Open Source Geospatial Software, it could be<br class="">
better to have a dedicated page which allows new user<br class="">
to input keywords (e.g. the present software they are using,<br class="">
of the OGC standards compliance they are looking for etc.)<br class="">
and returning the results pointing to appropriate OSGeo<br class="">
software).<br class="">
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If I understood correctly, I think this is what Sandro has been<br class="">
suggesting and I like this approach.<br class="">
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As I already commented on the github ticket 1], I do not think<br class="">
it is necessary to have an item such as "similar proprietary software"<br class="">
or "Migrate From XXX" (also, we should rather propose "Migration *form* YYY to Free and Open Source<br class="">
tool", where YYY would be the user input keyword).<br class="">
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Also, some of the names of Proprietary products are registered as trademarks,<br class="">
and it could be better to avoid using these names directly on the OSGeo website.<br class="">
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Venka<br class="">
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[1] <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues/100" class="">https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues/100</a><br class="">
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On 9/21/2017 5:15 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Jody Garnett wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">How much of your initial concern was providing a link? Or is it just<br class="">
displaying the name (switching to MapInfo for the example here). It would<br class="">
be kind of nice if the it behaved like a keyword, and linked to the project<br class="">
page short listing all the projects that one can migrate to from MapInfo.<br class="">
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It's different degrees of annoyance. I guess a brand-less and<br class="">
link-less list of names of proprietary products would not be too<br class="">
"offensive" for me (assuming spam filtering lets it pass) but I'd<br class="">
still prefer an hidden keyword. Something that you never see written<br class="">
but is recognized by the search engine to give you back a similar<br class="">
software: you search for <proprietary> you get <free>.<br class="">
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The "like Photoshop, only better" motto I like even when it contains<br class="">
the name because it explicitly bashes it :)<br class="">
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