I do not think of it as just an emotive response - some business models do not match our ideals as an organization (requirement to purchase a platform subscription for services, or an API key for data use). While some organizations match our ideals, but I do not like the ethics (dumping software to opensource as part of an exit strategy). <br><br>Both these approaches use open source as a tool, but to enable behaviour that is not necessarily collaborative. The free-and-open end of the open source pool is working on this, but it is a big pool and we want to help everyone. <br><br>I see our role as changing the the playing field over time so that these business models do perform as well as the ones that embrace, contribute to and leverage open source.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 1:59 PM <<a href="mailto:bradh@frogmouth.net">bradh@frogmouth.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-8706720822591006867WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Indeed GDAL/OGR uses some ESRI code, example:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/a1df7cb9df2fe3cbcfac974b434b01ac6a1946e5/gdal/frmts/mrf/JPEG_band.cpp#L21" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/a1df7cb9df2fe3cbcfac974b434b01ac6a1946e5/gdal/frmts/mrf/JPEG_band.cpp#L21</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>If you don’t want anyone with competing products, it’ll be a short list, and somewhat difficult to justify (e.g. OSGeo has lots of software that is mostly developed and tested against Oracle’s Java, but Oracle Spatial is an alternative to PostGIS). If you don’t want anyone who does patents, it’ll exclude most of the big IT companies.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Is this just an emotive response?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-8706720822591006867WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Brad<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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