I agree, it is always good to collaborate with other organizations, as long as the collaboration is clear, brings mutual benefits are and there are no conflictual goals.
Which I think is still a topic for discussion: what is you actual final aim? How do you want to achieve it? Maxi 2015-11-13 10:32 GMT+01:00 María Arias de Reyna <delawen+os...@gmail.com>: > Hi Sandro, > > I agree with you. But I understand that people with less experience on > free software are afraid (at the beginning) of freedom. It is a big > step to take from closed software and not everyone is willing/brave > enough to take it. That's why I say that it is understandable. Not > that they are right to think so. > > In any case, to me we finally found the main difference between the > two organizations. We can collaborate on the open field and work alone > on the free field. > > To me, having other organizations collaborating is a good thing, as > long as we understand the difference and don't merge too much (which > is another possible step, but not something we decided yet to do). I > think that in Spain we have a good example with Geoinquietos, which > shares a lot with OSGeo (some people way it is the "white" brand of > OSGeo in Spain) but still, it's different. So different that in some > regions we have more in common with OSM than with OSGeo. > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Sandro Santilli <s...@keybit.net> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 09:45:23AM +0100, María Arias de Reyna wrote: > > > >> And as wrong as they are, if their main focus is on > >> bussiness, it is understandable they are afraid of freedom. > > > > I disagree on this point. > > I've been make a living out of free software development for over a > > decade now, and I know there are many people doing the same. > > > > Businesses do not need to be afraid of (software) freedom, > > but I can see businesses based on distributing non-free software > > wanting to be sure they can easily find cheap components to build > > their black boxes, and thus offering hosting for such potentially > > exploitable components. > > > > --strk; > -- *Massimiliano Cannata* Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica Responsabile settore Geomatica Istituto scienze della Terra Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana Campus Trevano, CH - 6952 Canobbio Tel. +41 (0)58 666 62 14 Fax +41 (0)58 666 62 09 massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch *www.supsi.ch/ist <http://www.supsi.ch/ist>*
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