MapServer Foundation - Open Letter
Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
Tom.Kralidis at EC.GC.CA
Wed Nov 30 08:21:04 PST 2005
>
> OK. So here's a sincere call for input.
>
> Here's the rub. Regardless of who made the mistake of
> suggesting it, I liked the name and agreed that we would go
> with it, so I'll take responsibility for MSE.
>
> On the back of that, we - what can now be seen as the TSC-x
> cabal + 1 ADSK person - started drifting from foundation
> names that had more umbrella-like characteristics like
> osgis.org, mapcommunity, maptools, etc. and towards something
> that focuses on what we were putting out together. Based on
> the fact that both products were named MapServer in the root,
> we went with "MapServer Foundation".
>
> Now let's assume we change the name back to MapGuide. Why
> would I now want to cripple any hope of adoption by anybody
> by putting it in a foundation (that I helped name) that
> highlights one map serving product over another?
>
So you're comparing MapGuide to MapServer? Maybe I should have given
MSE more of a chance. After downloading, reading the huge build/install
documentation, I reverted to good old ./configure && make.
..Tom
> So far the community is showing more common sense than we
> were on this, so I'm interested to hear your opinions.
>
> Gary
>
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