Mapserver acceptance as open source

[P Kishor]

On 1/7/07, John Mitchell <mitchelljj98 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting concerned that Mapserver will not be accepted by one of our
> clients because its open source.  Has anyone else ever have a similar
> problem?  Does anyone have any advice?


that's weird... I mean, what is it that these clients of yours could
want? Would they like for it to be converted to proprietary source? I
mean, they could possibly offer a few million dollars for the
intellectual property, buy out the entire worldwide MapServer
community, and put their own brand on it.

An easier option for them would be to simply go and buy one of the
many closed source, proprietary alternatives and forget about
MapServer.

Maybe you should start conversation with them and find out before
starting the project... maybe they legitimately don't want an open
source solution, in which case, MapServer is not for them.



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