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<div dir="auto">Viva Milan,
<div dir="auto">We do not pose limitation, we do not put barriers, we take them out !</div>
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<div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><font size="4">Hello everyone. sorry but I completely disagree with you. Pushing a diverse and multicultural community to agree on a political point of view can lead to divisions, wasted time and distraction
from OSGeo's real needs. Asking to "not be indifferent" is a well known polarizing technique. Attempts to oversimplify the complexity of reality without even trying to acknowledge that there are different opinions and interests, obstructs the pursuit of truth
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<div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><font size="4">I believe that the OSGeo Community shall focus on bringing our beautiful software to THE NEXT LEVEL and not playing the same games that are used by the "market economy or capitalism".</font></div>
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<div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><font size="4">Let's find ways that have a real impact by concrete examples of openness, friendship and community! Let's try to be better than them!</font></div>
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<div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><font size="4">This is just my 2 cents point of view, don't take it personally..<br>
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<div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><font size="4">For example 👇👇👇 @Luís Moreira de Sousa this attitude does not belong to the open source spirit</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Il giorno dom 23 feb 2025 alle ore 19:14 Luís Moreira de Sousa via Discuss <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>> ha scritto:<br>
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when I was a child, the priest in our parish used to say that everything we do in life is political. I am not certain such direct confrontation is the best way to dissuade regular folk from voting for autocratic movements, but doing something is certainly better
than doing nothing. The SpatiaLite project, for instance, is taking things even further [0]. If I am allowed to give advice on the matter, just be careful not to undermine a project for little influence on the public discourse.</div>
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Take care.</div>
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P.S.: as much as I am troubled with the cahos spawned by the US government, to what open source is concerned, the CRA still appears to me as the greatest challenge in the coming years.</div>
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[0] <a href="https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/index.html">https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/index.html</a></div>
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<div>On Thursday, 20 February 2025 at 19:17, Even Rouault via Discuss <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p>I've started an activist campaign of open source projects want to join the protest against the US government stupid, cruel and dangerous politics that affect the whole world ?</p>
<p>I've initiated the move with GDAL (<a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11865">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11865</a> , with follow ups in
<a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11875">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11875</a>,
<a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11876">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11876</a>,
<a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11877">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11877</a>) , and also pushing for PROJ (<a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/4406">https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/4406</a>) , MapServer (<a href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7233">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7233</a>)
and GEOS (<a href="https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/1243">https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/1243</a>) .</p>
<p>Anyone else ?</p>
<p>I don't agree that we should stay away from politics. Our projects only make sense in the context of a free society, and this freedom is at high stake. We have admittedly little power, but we can and should exercise it with the tools at our disposal. The
addition of small little acts might end up having visible consequences.<br>
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Note to current US government: stop messing with the world!</pre>
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