[Freegis-list] relationship between Open Source GIS and open standards

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi list,

I was wondering why there is such a strong link between Open Source GIS  
and open standards, such as the OGC standards. Some of the reasons I could  
think of are:

-OGC often uses Open Source projects as their reference implementation  
(Deegree for WMS, Geoserver for WFS, Deegree for CS-W)

-Open Source projects sometimes start without having a native interface,  
so when they are in search of an interface they are more likely to end up  
implementing open standard interfaces

I am interested to see if I am missing some viewpoints on this issue.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Bart

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