[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for a one pager write up for Why Open Source is good.

Barry Rowlingson b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
Thu Sep 12 06:43:28 PDT 2013


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:29 PM, MarĂ­a Arias de Reyna
<delawen+osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
> <bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> I'm looking for a one pager write-up for a Booth display for why Open
>> Source Software is a good bet for businesses.
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>> Anything I can use freely or pointers would be appreciated. This is
>> intended as an informational handout.
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>> I have a start on something below, maybe it's easier for folks to add to
>> these.  I'll go off and look some on Google
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>> Thanks in advance.
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> Hi,
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> Look for the four liberties of free software. Here are some hints:
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
> And don't use open, use free:
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html

 And don't say 'commercial', say 'proprietary' (if that's what you
mean). I'm surprised Arnulf hasn't already jumped in on that point!

 Free and open source software can be commercial.

Barry



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