[Journal] Fwd: Re: OSGeo-Journal: proof reading

[Paolo Cavallini]

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Hi.
I'm sorry to disagree:
1. the case study is nothing especially new
2. it is not described, but rather advertised, so not really useful
3. as far as it can be perceived, the same situation is perfectly
replicable with a fully free and open source stack.
The main message that comes out is: "it is possible to use free software
along with proprietary sw", admittedly a rather weak one.
More generally, the feeling an open source fan will get is "Hey, so it
*was* true! Autodesk has bought Open Source!", and that's something
nobody wants, I believe.
Your argument (only a 100% proprietary solution is unacceptable) seems
rather weak to me. I think only papers useful to the spread of GFOSS
should find home here.
All the best.
pc

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) ha scritto:
> 
> Hi Martin,
> I fully expect that many case studies and integration examples will
> (should!) show open source alongside closed source.  Articles like this
> are something I encourage us to seek out because they are real world
> solutions.  It is a major strength of the open source development
> process that we can be promoting.  If there are ways that an article
> presents or confuses open source versus closed source, then we can help
> the contributors by explaining how they could better communicate the
> topic.  For example, I see they call proprietary software "commercial" -
> an easy and not obvious mistake, since open source software is regularly
> used in a commercial context, but correcting that language can be
> something we can help with.
> 
> I think we'd all agree that an article that speaks only of proprietary
> solutions would not be acceptable.  But the SFUF case study definitely
> does do this, the geospatial side of it is the particular focus that
> concerns our readership anyway.  Was there any specific concern you guys
> had?
> 
> Tyler
> 

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Paolo Cavallini
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