On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Miguel Montesinos <mmontesi...@prodevelop.es> wrote: > > 1) Do you think that it may avoid proprietary users to migrate to open > solutions, as they can benefit of open-source libraries under their > proprietary software?
It's overwhelmingly a good thing. If people are using proprietary software that incorporates open source libraries.. then they are using both open source AND proprietary software components. "100% open source" purists (in my opinion) alienate themselves from a large portion of the community. There are many practical reasons to use proprietary software, I don't see it as something that ever gets 100% eliminated (in an realistic timeline relevant to me). > Besides, this give arguments to proprietary > manufacturers because of the weakness of open-source software needing to > run on top of proprietary ones, or to sell out their compatibility with > FOSS4G. No more than an argument that proprietary software is weak for 'needing' to leverage open source. And how is selling compatibility with FOSS4G bad? Isn't that the goal? -- Brian Russo / (808) 271 4166 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
