[Pacific] Attack on the FOSS4G Community

[Martin Isenburg]

Hello,

Note that my "ESRI conspiracy" is just an attention grabbing joke (that
they still deserve over the "LAZ clone back-stabbing" that they never
apologized for). It's not ESRI this time. It's just a silly BLM manager who
wanted to be a superhero(-ine) protecting his or her homeland security
without knowing very much about my humor, my history, or LAStools. As
ridiculous as it is, but some silly mid-level manager started this libel,
slander and defamation and the US Department of Homeland Security - without
any further fact-checking - went with it and sent out memos across their
various such as the one that was leaked (see attached).

This is serious libel. This can destroy the credibility and trust that I
have built up over many years. I am looking for a law firm. Top dogs, Any
recommendations?

Regards,

Martin

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:31 PM Edwin Liava'a <liavaa.edwin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I came across Martin Isenburg's post on linkedin and it got me
> concerned. Especially for us here in the Pacific with limited budgeted
> financial resources to mitigate recurrent costs of licensing
> proprietary software such as ESRI and likes.
>
> And I quote:
>
> "The U.S. Department of the Interior seems to be elevating their
> attack on our community. Now they are not only going after #LAStools
> but also after the #QGIS community. Who is really behind this? Maybe
> it is Esri? Come on Jack (Dangermond). I thought we brought the "LAZ
> clone war" behind us. But it may well be that the #Covid19 crisis is
> challenging the role of #Esri as the premier #GIS software. And
> license troubles in home offices make a good new argument for
> switching to QGIS with #LAStools. Maybe ESRI is now using their
> "muscle" with the U.S. federal agencies to get rid of competitors such
> as LAStools and QGIS ... ? ☢️💚🐥"
>
> https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6687470117200171008
>
> Which reminds me of someone supporting ESRI during the Pacific GIS/RS
> Conference 2009, this person threatening me to be very careful after
> doing a presentation using QGIS for Hydrological Cycle Observing
> System(HYCOS) Time Dependent Data.
>
> Interesting times indeed. I encourage all Pacific Islands
> practitioners of FOSS4G to keep at it. Power to the people :)
>
> cheers,
>
> Edwin
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