[Pacific] Attack on the FOSS4G Community

[Edwin Liava'a]

Hi Martin,

Tonnes of thanks for the clarification/sharing...love your humor, history
and LAStools :)

cheers,

Edwin

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:07 PM Martin Isenburg <martin.isenburg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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