[OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

Bruce, Bob (CON) Bob.Bruce at gov.mb.ca
Sat Oct 10 15:59:36 EDT 2009


Then there is "The Price of "FREE" Open Source Software has really
become Expensive!!" at
http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/05/price-free-of-open-source-software-ha
s.html

It is easy to make all kinds of statements when you aren't accountable
for them and when they are not peer-reviewed.

I wouldn't lose any sleep over this.

	Bob Bruce

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bart van den
Eijnden (OSGIS)
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 7:19 AM
To: cavallini at faunalia.it
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

It's a rainy day here and why not read some more of his blog I thought, 
until I encountered:

http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/05/opengeo-team-is-faster-and-better-tha
n.html

Best regards,
Bart

Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) ha scritto:
>   
>> Thanks for attending us to this thread Paolo.
>>
>> FUD is the word for sure. More fud from the same guy on the benchmark
>> exercise:
>>
>>
http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/09/geospatial-performance-benchmarks.htm
l
>>     
>
> Ha! This says something ;)
>
> "I find myself spending such a HUGE part of my time getting the
competitive software
> to even "work" to do the test."
>
> How log do any of us take to have a running mapserver or geoserver? ;)
>
> Thanks Bart for letting know.
> All the best.
>   


-- 
Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
bartvde at osgis.nl
http://www.osgis.nl

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