<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>ARGENTINA FOSS4G<br></div>the 'Developing World', has this problem of dependency on Proprietary GIS Software.<br></div>Just Google GIS jobs and you for sure will hit the Proprietary kind.<br><br></div>It is pertinent to demonstrate:<br>1. That what we build on gvSIG, Qgis etc can be equally used on propreitary GIS, thus cutting costs.<br></div>2. Choose a GNU-Linux Operating System along with Open Source GIS, and you will never(be hit by), 'WannaCRY'.<br></div>3.
Having a DEMONSTRATION, of ESRI, AUTOCAD, Bentley clients networked
(SAMBA) with systems using GNU-Linux with Open Source GIS will take our
cause a long way.<br><br></div>FINALLY <br><br></div>4. Software Piracy.. This is like fighting Cancer, the self inflicted software malice.<br></div>'Clean Pirated GIS and the Open Source GIS will bloom'.<br></div>Not sure if the 1998 Argentinian court ruling still prevails.<br><a href="http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/fe/daily/19980207/03855554.html" target="_blank">http://expressindia.<wbr>indianexpress.com/fe/daily/<wbr>19980207/03855554.html</a></div>