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

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Mike,


Thanks for this excellent updates . It is great to see SDI-Open developments and i am sure it is great opportunity to expand ideas. Good to have Mamata Akella, from CartoDB, Inc., USA, to speak on this topic and have discussions. It will be great if the workshop summary is shared later with the community.


Best wishes,


Suchith

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From: Finn, Michael <mfinn at usgs.gov>
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Subject: Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?

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




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On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:55 PM, Ravi Kumar <manarajahmundry2015 at gmail.com<mailto: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<mailto: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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