[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: scale of FOSS projects

2008-05-06 Thread Gilberto Camara
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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: scale of FOSS projects

2008-05-06 Thread Dave Patton
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