[Freegis-list] proprietary packages: (arcview)

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:51:35PM -0700, Adrian Custer wrote:
> 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.

I agree.

> 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). 

That's also true, but as there are many places where proprietory
software is advertised I hope that we can avoid open up another
opportunity on this list.

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