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<p>Dear Colleagues -</p>
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<p> I strongly object to this statement.. </p>
<p>" ... <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">t this system can NOT be
considered OPEN in the usual definition and is therefore not something OSGEO
shoudl be involved with... "</span></p>
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<p> There are numerous references to cite here.. details on request</p>
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<p>best regards from Berkeley, California</p>
<p> --Brian M Hamlin PSC OSGeo-Live, California Chapter</p>
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<p><br> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 08:46:38 +0000<br> From:
<b.j.kobben@utwente.nl><br> To: <volksnav@volksnav.de>,
<Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk>,<br> <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>,
<Standards@lists.osgeo.org><br> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All -
Empowering academics and<br> educators globally - requesting colleagues to share
Geo4All ideas at<br> Geography Awareness Week<br> Message-ID:
<F9C56C51-86AA-4DE0-AA51-45C103098BDD@utwente.nl><br> Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br> Quote: " The license fee for educational
purposes is symbolically EUR 1,- "<br><br> This implies there is also a
(higher?) non-educational fee, and also means IMHO that this system can NOT be
considered OPEN in the usual definition and is therefore not something OSGEO
shoudl be involved with...<br><br> Yours,<br><br> --<br> Barend Köbben<br>
Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente<br> PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede
(Netherlands)<br> ITC Building (room 1-065)<br> @barendkobben<br> +31-(0)53 4874
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