[Geowanking] Well we clearly have to work on this a bit more ...

[Landon Blake]

Jody,

What was your project's milestone?

I didn't know about the GIS blog. I'll keep an eye on it now.

Thanks,

Landon

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[mailto:geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 2:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Well we clearly have to work on this a bit
more ...

Landon Blake wrote:

>Thanks for forwarding the link Jody.
>
>This is the first time I've heard of the Autodesk/Mapserver issue, and
I
>must say I'm surprised and disappointed. 
>
>I know I'm only getting one side of the story, but this sure sounds
like
>a shady deal to me.
>  
>
I am not to sure, interesting you have not heard about it yet? Do you 
read http://slashgisrs.org/ is probably the easiest thing to watch 
although the various
blogs, podcasts etc have been talking about little else all week.

>I don't trust Autodesk any farther than I can throw em. They're about
as
>fat and happy as you can get, and I haven't seen any affection on there
>part for open source or open standards.
>  
>
Well on the bright side this is there first attempt, perhaps they just 
need help? I was glad geotools
had a project managment comittee and everything figured out by the time 
I started taking part, not
really sure how mapserver is usually structured.

>In fact, I was just reading an article in Cadlyst Magazine in which an
>Autodesk Executive was attacking the OpenDesign Alliance and their
>OpenDWG format.
>
>(Not that the boys at the OpenDesign Alliance are exactly running a
>truly "open" club either, but Autodesk definitely isn't happy about
>anyone trying to crack the latest DWG format. To me, this is evidence
of
>a Cyclops out to protect it's monopoly and domination of the CAD
>market.)
>
>In summary, the idea of Autodesk being involved in Mapserver is like
the
>idea of Microsoft joining a foundation for OpenOffice. It'll be
>interesting to see how this turns out.
>  
>
Well it seems to be that they are open sourcing their existing/new thing

as MapServer Enterprise, not sure
their is much code shared w/ the open source project.  As I said it is 
hard to figure out a reality check
through the press releases and coverage.

On a related note my own project made a milestone release this week ;-) 
It has the opposing problem, hard to make
out the marketting message between in all the reality.
Jody

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