MapServer Foundation - Open Letter

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

> 
> OK. So here's a sincere call for input.
> 
> Here's the rub. Regardless of who made the mistake of 
> suggesting it, I liked the name and agreed that we would go 
> with it, so I'll take responsibility for MSE.
> 
> On the back of that, we - what can now be seen as the TSC-x 
> cabal + 1 ADSK person - started drifting from foundation 
> names that had more umbrella-like characteristics like 
> osgis.org, mapcommunity, maptools, etc. and towards something 
> that focuses on what we were putting out together. Based on 
> the fact that both products were named MapServer in the root, 
> we went with "MapServer Foundation".
> 
> Now let's assume we change the name back to MapGuide. Why 
> would I now want to cripple any hope of adoption by anybody 
> by putting it in a foundation (that I helped name) that 
> highlights one map serving product over another? 
> 

So you're comparing MapGuide to MapServer?  Maybe I should have given
MSE more of a chance.  After downloading, reading the huge build/install
documentation, I reverted to good old ./configure && make.

..Tom


> So far the community is showing more common sense than we 
> were on this, so I'm interested to hear your opinions.
> 
> Gary
>