[postgis-users] MultiDimensional Indexing / $$$

[Michael Graff]

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Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> writes:

> On the other funding side, I have to remind everyone on the list that
> both ourselves (Refractions Research) and Vivid Solutions have put our
> own *cash money* on the table to fund the UVic project porting
> (geos.refractions.net) the JTS topological operators to C++ for use in
> PostGIS. Specialized open source projects like PostGIS can only compete
> feature-wise with commercial products if everyone who is using these
> things pitches in to push the project forward. The beauty of open-source
> is that if everyone contributes, the individual level of contribution
> will probably not even come close to the simple licencing costs of a
> proprietary alternative. (Because we do not spend 25% of revenue on
> marketing, and we do not have 35% profit margins.)

If this were anything but a hobby for me, I'd throw in some $$$.  If I
had $$$, that is.  :)  I'm a DNS hacker by day, and only play around
with things like this in my spare time.

I would like to thank you and refractions for the PostGIS stuff.
Without that, I'd be writing it, and I honestly wouldn't do nearly as
good a job, nor as simple to use API.

- --Michael
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