[GRASS5] Re: [Fwd: whinging about GRASS again]

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:53:42AM -0600, Mark P. Line wrote:
> Russell Nelson said:
...
> >
> > Everyone agrees that GRASS has a steep learning curve of its own,
> > independent on the GIS learning curve.  Consequently, there must be
> > many people who would like to do GIS analysis using GRASS, but have
> > not gotten past the learning curve.
> 
> That tells me that there are people not currently using GRASS. I already
> knew that, and that was not my question.

Maybe he took literally a comment in the document "Introduction to GRASS 4"
by James Westervelt, June 11, 1991:

http://grass.itc.it/devel/grass1to4history.html
"...
 1988 	GRASS 3.0	Distribution to about 1000 sites.
 1991 	GRASS 4.0	Distribution to every household.
"        

Sorry, I couldn't resist :-)

Markus