[OSGeo-Discuss] "Free"

[Allan Doyle]

There are plenty of places Oracle can demo or hold a workshop. There  
are not so many places developers of Free and Open Source Software  
can do the same.

Let the non-free companies come and learn about FOSS. I'm not sure we  
have to teach the FOSS developers about non-free software.

	Allan

On Mar 2, 2007, at 14:06, Gary Lang wrote:

> Beer. No source. I think the limitation is 4GB of data store.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss- 
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paulo Marcondes
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:04 AM
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> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] "Free"
>
> 2007/3/2, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net>:
>
>>    Developing GeoSpatial applications for Oracle XE
>>    (the free Express Edition of the Oracle database).
>
>> Looks great to me! I would go (hope it's not cross scheduled with  
>> *my*
>> workshop...). And the software they are showing is free. So, a  
>> perfect fit.
>
>
> I am risking a flamewar here, but I thought I should raise the  
> issue here.
>
> Which kind of 'free' are we talking here? Speech or beer?
>
> On another related point, I am always careful with corporate  
> workshops/lectures/whatever, as they too often tend to be more of  
> the advertising than the technical type.
>
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