[OSGeo-Discuss] Greek Inspire Metadata Editor (gimed)

[Alex Mandel]

I'm more concerned about the lack of direct support for multi-platforms.
Of course that implies that MS does a good job of supporting it's
platform. Noted case, how many years it took Flash to really be usable
without crazy hacks on linux. (OT: Anyone know what's up with Novell
possibly selling itself and what that might mean for the future of Mono?
- ala the current roll over Oracle's plans for previous Sun merchandise)

That said I would love to see some workshops and examples of testing on
Mono implementations on all platforms. While .Net isn't my 1st choice
there is a place for it and a whole lot of people well entrenched in it,
wouldn't hurt to bring them into the Open Source light and realize cross
language implementations of infrastructure are not abnormal.

Thanks,
Alex

On 11/09/2010 04:06 PM, Daniel Ames wrote:
> Coming late to this discussion, I would point out that the FSF article about
> Mono is based entirely on conjecture. Particularly this statement:
> 
> "Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C# implementations
> underground some day using software patents"
> 
> I suspect if the OSGeo world were to base all decisions on the threat of
> potential future patent litigation, we'd pretty much all just have to close
> shop and go fishing or become used car salesmen instead of writing
> software...
> 
> - Dan
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Nikos Alexandris <
> nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> 
>> Cameron:
>>
>>>> Why was gimed developed rather than extending GeoNetwork?
>>
>> Angelos:
>>
>>> - When developing for HEMCO project, the time frame was very limited and
>>> I estimated that a clean implementation would be faster.
>>> - The project's specifications were also requiring C# because other non
>>> FOSS API's were involved.
>>
>> I (too) was curious about that Angele (talming about C# and Mono). It is
>> not
>> clear to me, as an end-user, if and what dangerous license implications
>> could
>> rise in the future (reading: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono).
>>
>> I hope we will find the time to discuss about this and other issues in the
>> upcoming GeoDataCamp in Athens.
>>
>> Cheers, Nikos
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