[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source vs Closed source

[Lester Caine]

Bob Basques wrote:
> We've got a discussion going on in the office about the subject line.  I
> was wondering if folks here had any pointers to online information, both
> from a superficial view (low detail level, IE Manager speak) as well as
> some somewhat higher level information about costs, in the short term/
> long term, etc.

How long is a piece of string? ..... ;)
What sort of information are you looking for? There is a growing catalog of 
freely available data from various sources. The UK government has just released 
some nice raster and tabular data, and the US government makes conciderable more 
freely available. And there are plenty of open source software packages that 
will work with it.

So what are you looking for?

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