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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Phil,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The TerraGeoTech article is very interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And the goog activity mirrors exactly what we are doing with CitySmart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">“The company listed efficient transportation, lowering the cost of living,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">reducing energy usage, and effective government operations as problems
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">that have been hard to address despite advancements in technology.”</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">So we are the leaders of needed innovation, they follow our lead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And we do it ^open^ all the way! Maximizing benefit to society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">and innovation to the tools. This world of ours needs FOSS4G!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-Patrick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">On Behalf Of
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 11, 2015 8:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org; Suchith Anand; discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open Source Article<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sucith has an interesting argument for Open over proprietary. This article reinforces it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.terragotech.com/blog/deflating-the-grip-of-proprietary-gps-objection-by-objection">http://www.terragotech.com/blog/deflating-the-grip-of-proprietary-gps-objection-by-objection</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On Jun 11, 2015 8:05 AM, Phillip Davis <<a href="mailto:pdavis@delmar.edu">pdavis@delmar.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Wouldn't it be nice to have the world's largest technology company, Google, utilize our FOSS4G in their new CityLabs efforts:<br>
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<a href="https://fortune.com/2015/06/11/googles-sidewalk-labs/">https://fortune.com/2015/06/11/googles-sidewalk-labs/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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