[Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit offtopic?)

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Fri Aug 22 07:54:35 PDT 2008


Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>>
>> I've found [1] exact year when MOSS was published/released - 1978
>> It's also confirmed on Polish GeoForum website [2]
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/4606038/2004-Article-by-Carl-Reed-MOSS-A-Historical-perspective 
>>
>> [2] 
>> http://www.geoforum.pl/pages/index.php?page=GIS_chronologia2&id_catalog_text=2366 
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/geoforum-moss-1978
>>
> 
> Carl Reed's article is very interesting... I've updated the wiki with a 
> link to it and the 1978 date:
> 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History
> 
> It's a wiki so you can/should all add your findings to it.


Daniel,

Thanks, I've added the chronology.

Ciao,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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