[GRASSLIST:3440] Re: GRASS as educational tool? (was: Just another stupid question from a paranoid education fun!)

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 07:54:07AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:27:26PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> 
> > > ESRI provides excellent
> > > set of tools, but a single copy - ready to use workstation with ArcGIS
> > > license is priced at around 12.000$ US.  The question is how many
> > > university graduate students can buy it to start doing some simple
> > > consultancy or independent research work. Not too many I guess.
> > 
> > That is only one drawback of proprietory software.
> > Another is that they will not have access to the underlying
> > technology if they are interested and that they cannot adapt
> > the tools and share them. 
> 
> Well, ESRI does make it possible to do quite a bit with their underlying
> technology (including extending it).  

This might already be because of the pressure of customers demanding this.
What keeps us from demanding more freedom.

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