[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: land records management with open source GIS

[P Kishor]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:12:43AM -0500, P Kishor wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks for replying, everyone. Instead of replying to each one of you
>> separately, I am replying to myself, primarily to add more info to
>> this query.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:24 AM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > does anyone know of an existing product, or a firm that develops such
>> > a product catering to cadastral and land records management, but using
>> > a completely open source stack?
>> >
>>
>> A friend of mine is working in a SA country that has a new policy that
>> all software at the national level must be non-commercial open source.
>
> One of these clauses makes sense, one of them does not. Why would you
> limit yourself to *non* commercial Open Source?

I am just the messenger, so I don't know the reason why.


> Don't people realize
> that hiring someone with expertise in a field is sometimes better --
> depending on your in-house expertise that exists -- than learning it
> all on your own?

I think they do want to hire someone with expertise. They are willing
to pay for it. Hence the query.

>
> Open Source isn't supposed to mean 'free' :( At least they're
> acknowledging that there will be some costs, but overall, I feel icky
> whenever I see someone say things like 'non-commercial open source';
> the whole point of the 'open' part is that it shouldn't be a problem
> if it's commercial.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> Web Developer
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