As I said to John in a PM, I think what he's doing is extremely important and will help bolster the concept of open source for the masses that we've been pushing with our .NET MapWindow project. <div><br></div><div>
Three cheers to ANYONE who is willing to bust their chops on some code and put it out to the world!!!!!</div><div><br></div><div>- Dan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tmitchell@osgeo.org">tmitchell@osgeo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">P Kishor wrote:<br>
> Listen, I personally appreciate the zeal for open sourcing software<br>
> and data (most of my personal religion is based on the belief that<br>
> open data are better for everyone), but trash talking closed software<br>
> makes the whole world blind.<br>
<br>
</div>Of course we never trash talk other open source languages either, do we?<br>
Where would we be without all the good arguments for Python vs the<br>
'others'... ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist.<br>
<br>
Just to say, we have done pretty good on this list avoiding platform or<br>
language wars, but I am interested to learn what<br>
strengths/features/ease-of-use others find in their language of choice.<br>
Just to be better educated, not to flame anyone.<br>
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