[Qgis-community-team] foss4g & esri

[Alexandre Neto]

Hello,

If I were an optimist, I would say that they are trying... but giving very
little baby steps (not enough).

On the other hand, If I were a sceptic, I would say that they just want to
capitalize a bit of the Open Source momentum, and grab some costumers that
heard somewhere that Open Source is the way to go.

This happen a lot in natural environment, and it's called the "Green wash".
So in this case it would be a case of "Open wash" or even "Free wash".

Anyway, it's strange, but It those not bother me that they were there with
their little lonely stand.


Kind regards,

Alexandre Neto.

PS: Tomorrow, last day of FOSS4G13, still lots of new things to see (but
not in the E$RI stand :-P)


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Anne Ghisla <a.ghisla at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:19:47 +0200
> Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> > I'm currently at the esri goes open source on github presentation.
> > They have the flex viewer, Geocoder widget, Terraformer,
> > esri-leaflet, geoportal server, gis tools for hadoop
> > ...
> > The presenter mostly listed the different projects.
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been at the presentation at well (/me waves at Anita from first
> row :) )
>
> Should the discussion not belong to this list, feel free to redirect it
> in the more appropriate one.
>
> I think that a good aspect of this move from Esri is that their
> customers and developers are exposed to github workflow (where many
> open source projects are hosted) and to the words "open source". I
> think that this can make the transition to open source less abrupt than
> before.
>
> Many other Esri decisions are not compatible with open source
> principles, but I think that it is a small step forward. Everyone is
> free to build up his/her personal opinion on this, of course :)
>
> > Best wishes
> > Anita
>
> Best,
> Anne
>
> >  On Sep 20, 2013 8:21 AM, "matteo" <matteo.ghetta at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  Dear qgis users and developers,
> > > surfing the foss4g website I discoverd that ESRI is an official
> > > sponsor of the event (http://2013.foss4g.org/sponsors/esri-uk/)
> > > Am I the only one that find it quite strange?!  It's quite
> > > controversial that ArcGis is promoted as a GIS software during a
> > > free open source software conference... or isn't it?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Matteo
>
> Anne
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