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

2008-05-07 Thread Landon Blake
Gilberto, You made some very interesting observations. Allow me to respond to two (2) of them: You wrote: "By contrast, OGC has reduced the motivation for innovation in issues such as spatial analysis, raster-based GIS, semantics, visualization, interfaces, and spatio-temporal models." I am n

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 publ