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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks for this information.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This </span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">looks like </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">misleading marketing/sales from any vendors if most of these </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"open-source solutions" still *require* a proprietary GIS!</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best wishes,</span><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Discuss <discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 2, 2018 10:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Suchith Anand<br>
<b>Cc:</b> osgeo-discuss; geoforall@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What is Openwashing? Is there any examples in GIS Vendors?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Let's see what the main player has to say about open source:<br>
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<a href="http://www.esriuk.com/software/open/open-source" id="LPlnk788158" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">http://www.esriuk.com/software/open/open-source</a><br>
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"As part of Esri’s technology and business strategy, we release and<br>
support open-source software. We have shared 350+ open-source projects<br>
on the developer collaboration platform GitHub. We also provide many<br>
focused open-source solutions for customizing and extending ArcGIS."<br>
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This can be considered "open washing" because most, if not all, of the<br>
"open-source solutions" still *require* a proprietary GIS.<br>
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Its been a while since I nosed round ESRI's github, but this appears<br>
to not require ArcGIS:<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/Esri/geometry-api-java" id="LPlnk503598" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://github.com/Esri/geometry-api-java</a><br>
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has anyone compared its performance with the JTS? -<br>
<a href="https://github.com/locationtech/jts" id="LPlnk887327" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://github.com/locationtech/jts</a> - assuming its functionality is<br>
similar...<br>
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Barry<br>
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 10:02 AM Suchith Anand<br>
<Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:<br>
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> I came across this term OpenWashing at <a href="http://openwashing.org" id="LPlnk192173" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
http://openwashing.org</a><br>
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> Openwashing: to spin a product or company as open, although it is not. Derived from 'greenwashing.'<br>
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> Openwashing: n., having an appearance of open-source and open-licensing for marketing purposes, while continuing proprietary practices.<br>
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> I am trying to understand the impact of this in GIS. Is there any examples of GIS Vendors using this OpenWashing?<br>
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> Best wishes,<br>
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> Suchith<br>
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