MapServer Foundation - Open Letter

[Ken Lord]

That would be the 'Con' part of my original response to this thread

 ... In the Simpsons theme ... 'I for one wecome our new Autodesk Overlords'

Ken



On 11/28/05, John Craddock <john.craddock at xitech.com.au> wrote:
> Viewing all this through the looking glass, it seems to me that we have just witnessed the largest reverse takeover of a community brand name by a commercial organisation in corporate IT history see the release containing: -
>
> "Autodesk plans to offer a commercial version of the product called Autodesk MapServer Enterprise in 2006, as well as an authoring environment which handles geospatial data collection and preparation of the data for distribution via the Internet."
>
> Takeover cost? Nix
> Brilliant!
>
> Next move: Leverage the logo - keep the Platypus out of it!
>
> Regards
> John C
> Australia
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tylermitchell at SHAW.CA]
> > Sent: 29 November 2005 09:09
> > To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer Foundation - Open Letter
> >
> >
> > > We seem to have been Slashdotted on this now as well:
> > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/28/1940207
> >
> > I submitted a more community focused one to slashdot, guess I
> > was too slow :)
> >
>