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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This will not be the first demise of a
open source program</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>See <a
href="http://www.digitalgrove.net/fgis.htm">http://www.digitalgrove.net/fgis.htm</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>And I quote</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>“</span></font><b><font size=4
color=red><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:red;font-weight:bold'>Notice! As
of </span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=red><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
color:red;font-weight:bold'>November 7, 2005</span></font></b><b><font size=4
color=red><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:red;font-weight:bold'>, Forestry
GIS (fGIS) is no longer available for public download.</span></font></b><font
size=4 color=red><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:red'> </span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The program was first released as
freeware in October 2003. Thousands of users around the world appreciated fGIS
as a simple and reliable complement to sophisticated commercial GIS editors. A
recent change in the license agreement for the core technology used to develop
fGIS, however, restricts distribution to Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources personnel and others who provide services to the agency. The </span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Wisconsin</span></font><font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'> DNR - Division of Forestry originally contracted for
the software and was happy to share it with the public while the license
agreement allowed, but the license has now changed.”</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Watch Autodesk do the same to MapServer</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Gary L. Watry</span></font></p>
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GIS Coordinator<br>
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies<br>
FSU / COAPS<br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Johnson</span></font><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Building</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>, RM 215<br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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color:navy'> </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
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