Very nice thread. This topic once a while comes back on our screens.
My two cents.
After various years of talks with OS and purists and not, software farms,
university departments, etc. from back to white visions, passing through
grey, I've pacified with my questions about where is the truth: it
Hi Chris,
Thank you for your feedback. I think, however, you might be staring a gift
horse in the mouth. I write software primarily because I need it and am happy
to share it with others. For me, open-source is about sharing ideas,
innovating, and improving education. I'm fortunate that I
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:18 AM, John Lindsay jlind...@uoguelph.ca wrote:
Hi Chris,
Thank you for your feedback. I think, however, you might be staring a gift
horse in the mouth. I write software primarily because I need it and am
happy to share it with others. For me, open-source is about
Please understand I am in no way criticising your software, which sounds of
interest although out of reach for me. I am also highly appreciative of the
work you and others like you put into developing solutions which you then share
with others and I do what I can to contribute too. I am just
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Chris Puttick
chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net wrote:
Please understand I am in no way criticising your software, which sounds of
interest although out of reach for me. I am also highly appreciative of the
work you and others like you put into developing
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:03:52PM +, Chris Puttick wrote:
Please understand I am in no way criticising your software, which
sounds of interest although out of reach for me. I am also highly
appreciative of the work you and others like you put into developing
solutions which you then share
P Kishor wrote:
Listen, I personally appreciate the zeal for open sourcing software
and data (most of my personal religion is based on the belief that
open data are better for everyone), but trash talking closed software
makes the whole world blind.
Of course we never trash talk other open
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote:
P Kishor wrote:
Listen, I personally appreciate the zeal for open sourcing software
and data (most of my personal religion is based on the belief that
open data are better for everyone), but trash talking
.
Great Job!
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As I said to John in a PM, I think what he's doing is extremely
The latent arrogance displayed in this thread is more destructive than
any software license.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Christopher Schmidt
crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 01:14:35PM -0400, Arnie Shore wrote:
Awww, the relative merits of the platforms/languages
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 08:06:59AM -1000, Brian Russo wrote:
The latent arrogance displayed in this thread is more destructive than
any software license.
I'm not trying to be arrogant, I'm sorry if it came off that way. I really
just think it's important to realize that Not every programmer
What I meant to say was... Chris P. has strategic reasons for his
choices and was inviting others to share (offline) their strategic
reasons for their choices. I wasn't trying to keep this thread running :)
Tyler
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
P Kishor wrote:
Listen, I personally appreciate
It wasn't directed at you Chris, nor specifically at anyone.
I just think the general tone of this conversation is pretty
unproductive. Sure people have reasons about being strategic
everything but maybe it's just how I'm reading it but I just see the
old, familiar tones of the Free Software
Terribly off-topic now, so feel free to stop reading...
- Brian Russo br...@beruna.org wrote:
It wasn't directed at you Chris, nor specifically at anyone.
I just think the general tone of this conversation is pretty
unproductive. Sure people have reasons about being strategic
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