On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Christopher Schmidt <crschm...@crschmidt.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:12:43AM -0500, P Kishor wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Thanks for replying, everyone. Instead of replying to each one of you >> separately, I am replying to myself, primarily to add more info to >> this query. >> >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:24 AM, P Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > does anyone know of an existing product, or a firm that develops such >> > a product catering to cadastral and land records management, but using >> > a completely open source stack? >> > >> >> A friend of mine is working in a SA country that has a new policy that >> all software at the national level must be non-commercial open source. > > One of these clauses makes sense, one of them does not. Why would you > limit yourself to *non* commercial Open Source?
I am just the messenger, so I don't know the reason why. > Don't people realize > that hiring someone with expertise in a field is sometimes better -- > depending on your in-house expertise that exists -- than learning it > all on your own? I think they do want to hire someone with expertise. They are willing to pay for it. Hence the query. > > Open Source isn't supposed to mean 'free' :( At least they're > acknowledging that there will be some costs, but overall, I feel icky > whenever I see someone say things like 'non-commercial open source'; > the whole point of the 'open' part is that it shouldn't be a problem > if it's commercial. > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > Web Developer > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss