[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

[Paulo Marcondes]

2008/5/15 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:
> I think there is a great danger to the open source, open data, and open
> standards efforts in the attempts to legislate them.  Done carelessly,
> legislation will inevitably lead to situations that are rediculous and this
> will discredit the whole effort.

I have seen this done here in the sunny land of Brazil.

Some free software activists have promoted free software to such
heights that the whole idea was hijacked by one political party and
shoved down the throat of many public orgs.
So, in that regard, there were many migration efforts, done with
little to no planning, that obviuosly went awry.
In hindsight, that is what happens when one takes free/open to the
level of pure ideology and tries to put it to work without
consideration to the practical and technical aspects.
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