Jo,
You have touched on an issue dear to my heart. I have a lot of work to
do this afternoon, so I can't babble on as I normally do. But, I can't
resist one or two short comments.
Jo wrote: In the past i've heard it suggested that really successful
open source
projects now need serious
On 5/6/08, Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:00:54PM +0200, Dirk Frigne wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:21:21PM +0200, Arnulf Christl wrote:
What was a Desktop GIS exactly? I only have a browser and for some
strange
reason all that I do
Dear all
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stated:
(...)
In the past i've heard it suggested that really successful open source
projects now need serious organisational backing. They can't be built
by a network of partly-funded enthusiast contributors alone.
(...)
If this is inevitable, why? Is innovation
Gilberto Camara wrote:
(c) Many innovations are produced at academic institutions.
Most of those institutions have no incentive nor mission
to support open-source development projects. Taking these
innovations out of academia and giving them institutional
support (private or
Jo,
I'm having trouble responding to your email, I think since it touches on
a number of points, and perhaps just because I mostly agree with what you
have said. So instead, I will just assert a few loosely related points that
come to mind after reading it.
1) I still fundamentally believe a
