Hi Luigi, Am Mo, 22.10.2018, 20:04 schrieb Luigi Pirelli: > In Spain, but I suppone in every place of the world, there are many > schools, universities or institutions that are dumped with free > licences to their users. This happen especially in school > and univerisities.
there already is a change in this. I'm from North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Nearly all universities are part of federal state's licence program of a well known US-GIS-provider. But some universities seem to pay more than others. When I've started spatial planning about 13 years ago, GIS license was free for everyone. But it got harder and harder to get one, since the fee of the shared licensed raised. Right now, GIS is limited to either your final paper or you have to proof that you need it for a semester's course. In both variants, it's limited to a year. But - like I said - there is a move to free GIS software. About 8-13 years ago, the well known GIS was used about everywhere beside F*E and M*pInf* (and some special ones with CAD of course). But because of the new fee and the CRAZY GREAT new abilities of FOSS, I'm can see much more corporations move to QGIS. Really, I've worked for a lot of corporations and I've visited lots of lectures at several universities. Things are going open. There are much courses about "free beer / free software" (the philosophics) and GIS courses are moving from A*GIS to QGIS. Another good point: Some teachers in Germany are civil servants. They're not allowed to get gifts from corporations, like free courses or whatever. Whenever teachers got into contact with QGIS in university, I see them using it at school, too. But for them, one thing is important: the GUI should not change too much. That's the big benefit of "old style" A*GIS: it looks equal since about v8.x ;) Best regards, Tobias ps: Sorry for my bad English. I'm having a fish sandwich in one hand. _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user