[Board] Support needed for FOSS SDI and it's viability

[Ravi]

Arnulf,
11th Aug meeting (Kerala) went well, that they are persuaded to open the tender again (re-tender). It is important that we have commercial operators (companies) that wish to provide services for FOSS GIS, which are not many in India. OSGeo India, is looking into all these developments. 
Ravi

--- On Mon, 23/8/10, Seven (aka Arnulf) <arnulf.christl at googlemail.com> wrote:

From: Seven (aka Arnulf) <arnulf.christl at googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [Board] Support needed for FOSS SDI and it's viability
To: "Ravi" <ravivundavalli at yahoo.com>
Cc: board at lists.osgeo.org
Date: Monday, 23 August, 2010, 3:39 PM

Ravi,
I just returned from a three week
 leave so I am very late to follow up.
  hope the 11h went well.

Please let me know if you still want to come up with something. Feel
free to send me the original document if it can be handled openly and
some information on how you got it and who it is addressed to.

It may well be that there are software niches where there is no single
competitive FOSS solution. Same vice versa. The real problem of the
cited passage is a generalization which then leads to a false inference
that proprietary software is somehow "better". We should not go down the
same way by falsely saying that all FOSS is better because that is
simply also not true.

Did you add the "(proprietary)" to "commercial" or was it in the
original document. If it was then this shows that our friendly opponents
from the closed side of business knwo very well what is going on. If
they only said "commercial" we should clarify that this is a
 misnomer.
This is an easy ticket.

Please check out whether any of the case studies int the OSGeo Wiki or
elsewhere apply to the needs of the mentioned state and let me know if
you feel something more direct is needed to address this paper.

Best regards,
Arnulf

Ravi wrote:
> My Dear Fellow board members of OSGeo,
> 
> Some so called SDI experts feel that FOSS SDI cannot perform at-par
> with Proprietary SDI. Please provide examples to fight a case from an
> Indian state which swears by Free and Open Source Software. We can
> never expect a better level playing field.
> 
> Kerala - India
> 
> Here are some excerpts from a document that has false claims
> supporting Proprietary Software.
> 
> However, it is worthwhile to mention here that the OSS (Open Source
> Software) does not match the advanced functionalities of many of the
>
 commercial (proprietory) software that is in the market. Image
> processing and analysis capabilities of the open source software is
> not comparable to the commercial software when one require to carry
> out advanced data manipulations, image fusion, 3D modeling,
> ortho-correction, auto-georeferencing, stereo-image/air photo
> interpretation (PROBABLY REFERRING TO GRASS), advanced geospatial
> analysis etc., In such cases, certain proprietary software become an
> integral part of the Spatial Data Infrastructures, which can not be
> avoided. At a later stage the some of the proprietary software need
> to be purchased.
> 
> It is a well known fact that web portal that run with OSS are neither
> OGC-compliant nor interoperable. At the present juncture it is only
> possible to establish the KSDI Geoportal with the available COTS
> enterprise software.
> 
> The
 detailed PDF document will be emailed on demand.
> 
> This is a case that has the potential to set trends in India. Hope to
> have a good discussion such that we can sum it up and present at a
> meeting being conducted on August 11th 2010, to settle the issue.
> 
> regards Ravi Kumar
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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