freeGIS is better (was: Re: [GRASS-user] Problem with Nviz : first post)

[Paolo Cavallini]

Please consider, however, that if you're ready to invest, say 50% of what you 
invest in your Mircosoft+ESRI+whatever licences, you'll get a system that is 
more reliable, stable, and advanced, than others. Of course, if you don't 
invest (either time to learn, or money to have support for the 
installation/configuration/feature enhancement/bug fixing problems you may 
have), you may end up not getting very much.
Don't assume free software is something not worth/necessary to invest in. It's 
rather obvious to many of us, but sometimes is good to repeat: think of free 
as free thinking, not as free beer.
All the best.
pc

At 23:52, sabato 10 giugno 2006, Jesse Hamner has probably written:
> Professor Maddy,
...
> Bottom line: if you think supporting Linux will be too troublesome, it's
> best to wait. I support Windows and Mac OS X in my center, and I don't
> push GRASS. People generally use Maptitude and Arc/GIS, and they can get
> their work done. Support-wise, it's also fairly easy to integrate a
> bunch of Windows PCs into a Windows-centric network and run an ESRI
> license server. It's a lot tougher to integrate Macs and Linux PCs into
> Active Directory. I would prefer things were less Microsoft-dominated,
> but I'd prefer a higher salary too...


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