[Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?

[Finn, Michael]

All,

This is a topic that we will have a presentation on at our Spatial data
infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial
(SDI-Open 2017) workshop at ICC 2017. As you likely learned from this
listServ or ohers, the ICA's Commission on Open Source Geospatial
Technologies (http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/) is organizing this
pre-conference workshop with the ICA Commission on SDI and Standards.(
http://icc2017.org/preconference-workshops/).

We are holding the workshop on 01 & 02 July 2017 at George Washington
University in DC. We will be using one of their GIS labs.We held a similar
workshop, SDI-Open in 2015, in Rio de Janeiro. (
http://sdistandards.icaci.org/sdi-open-2015-proceedings/)

I have asked Mamata Akella, from CartoDB, Inc., USA, to speak on this
topic. It will be a 20 minute presentation but if you attend there will be
plenty of time to discuss this over the two day workshop period.

I have a draft agenda that is really not refined enough to share but I am
willing to share to anyone who would like me to send them a copy.

In addition in my role as Vice-Chair of the Open Source commission, I a
member of the ICC Scientific Program Committee and can let you know that
our commission has planned (but not finalized) 12 sessions (of 3 or 4
presentations) during the duration of the conference from papers submitted
and accepted.

I really hope you will consider attending this workshop and this fantastic
international conference.

Mike




Michael P. Finn
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Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science
U. S. Geological Survey
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:55 PM, Ravi Kumar <manarajahmundry2015 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This is a good thread, and let us discuss to derive a 'Note', for those
> facing 'Questions', evangelising Free and Open GIS.
>
> I suggest this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_platform for many who
> wish to know.
> May be we can have a page on, 'OSGeo Wiki' on this topic.
> Cheers
> Ravi Kumar
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:45 AM, Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a query. If a properitery GIS vendor starts marketing thier
>> properitery products as Open platform and software then what rights do the
>> organisations and customers have who are mislead buying the  properitery
>> software thinking it is open have ?  The definision of Proprietary
>> software [1] is very clearly defined, so  how can it be possible for any
>> properitery GIS vendor to market their  software knowingly as open platform
>> if it is properitery?
>>
>> This also greatly affects the business and revenues of true open source
>> software companies .  Who is responsible for any misleading marketing that
>> results in losses to both customers who are mislead to buy the
>> properitery software thinking it is open  and also to other companies
>> who do true open source business who lose out on the business
>> opportunities? Is it right business ethics to do this?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software
>>
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