[Freegis-list] proprietary packages: (arcview)

[Adrian Custer]

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 23:09, Ben Discoe wrote:
> It is really puzzling to me that this mailing list is obviously about Free
> GIS software, yet people keep wandering in with totally off-topic questions
> about software which is neither Free as in Freedom nor Free as in Price.
> 
> Should we maybe try to make it yet more obvious, in the list description?

I doubt you'll stop them. Ideally we would be able to say: use xxxxxx
instead.


A belated response to some earlier traffic. There *is* some room to
discuss non-free software here in the context of what they do well that
we should replicate. There are quite a few platforms we can learn from
so discussion of that stuff is useful on this list (as long as that's
the context). 

I'm not looking for a flamefest :-)

just finishing my big piece on spatial analysis and I'm getting excited.
The omega project (statistics successor to R http://www.omegahat.org )
has managed to code an interpreter into their java code. Coupled with
geotools this could be pretty interesting...

cheers,
adrian