Thanks for this information.
This looks like misleading marketing/sales from any vendors if most of these
"open-source solutions" still *require* a proprietary GIS!
Best wishes,
Suchith
From: Discuss on behalf of Barry Rowlingson
Sent: Friday, November
Let's see what the main player has to say about open source:
http://www.esriuk.com/software/open/open-source
"As part of Esri’s technology and business strategy, we release and
support open-source software. We have shared 350+ open-source projects
on the developer collaboration platform GitHub.
I came across this term OpenWashing at http://openwashing.org
Openwashing: to spin a product or company as open, although it is not. Derived
from 'greenwashing.'
Openwashing: n., having an appearance of open-source and open-licensing for
marketing purposes, while continuing proprietary
