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<div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div>Agreed. What we want, at osgeo level, it to have fair competition, and to favour<br>those who invest back in OS development.</div></div></span></blockquote><div>Here is the tricky part; certification does not help this (unless we make a really good effort to stress the soft skills; and make such involvement part of the certification process).</div><div><br></div><div>Indeed the main benefit of certification here would be as an income draw to keep OSGeo going. And until I can see a decent set of numbers I am worried that certification will be yet another example of how the foundation can help promote open source; and not an example of how the foundation can afford to promote open source.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jody</div>
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