[mapguide-users] the time is over!!!

[Jason Birch]

(personal opinion here, not representing my employer)
 
I don't see that Autodesk needs to support the community beyond the proprietary Studio application that they sell.  They have done enough by providing MapGuide Open Source for us to work with along with its open XML-based APIs, and it's not like they were not up front about the Studio preview timing out.
 
If there are enough users that can not or do not wish to use Autodesk's Studio product, perhaps there are also enough funds or coding ability within our community to add the required additional features to Web Studio?  This is, after all, the beauty of Open Source.  If you don't like the existing features, add your own.
 
I have already taken advantage of this ability in two ways myself: the PostGIS FDO provider, and something else that I'm not ready to talk about yet.  However, for authoring it is more cost effective for me to just buy the Studio product from Autodesk than to pay for the enhancement of Web Studio.
 
Jason

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From: MapasCatastro [mailto:mapas at laplata.gov.ar]
Sent: Sun 2006-10-01 1:29 PM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapguide-users] the time is over!!!




the try period of studio is over.
Some body is working in the webstudio to work fine?
This is very important to the Community mapguide open source!!!

autodesk help to the Community??? or only support comercials users?

thanks a lot

oscar
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