MapLinx or ESRI Buisness Map OSS Replacement

[Oren Beck]

On 11/18/06, Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree that people like Shannon can cause political uneasyness, but
> there are many in FOSS that can do the same.  Heck, Shannon is an
> admitted Pink-Liberal-Pacifist.  Politically I'm 180 from him, but he
> is brilliant in areas of computing.  He writes his own database
> interfaces and drivers in hand coded assembly.  The community area of
> BME, called IAM, has over 15,000 users and is a dynamic content
> creation system with actives users literally all over the world.  He
> had it running smoothly at that level on a P3 850 running Windows and
> his hand coded software.  He has other sites of interest including
> http://www.priceofhistoys.com/ http://www.undermars.com/ and his blog
> (linked to IAM) at http://www.zentastic.com/
>
> Aside from political differences (many people on BME/IAM oppose
> some/many of his views) he is the one person I know who HAS done
> location and mapping work, on his own, nearly by himself, and gotten
> it to work.  That alone is somebody who should be consulted for a
> project like this, regardless of his more extreme views.   I forgave
> Linus for his fathers Communist sympathies years ago. :)
>
> Jon.
>
> I may be guilty of overestimating the knee jerk potential here.


But- playing it from my original premise let's still not let our guard down
.
"WE" may be able to disconnect easily "best programmer" from NSFW pictures.
The masses of mundanes sadly are often less openminded and OSS gets put at
risk.
THAT was why I listed the Edison grandstanding.
As re-assurance that Fearmongering often fails in dramatic reversa

Political alignment aside- the link was cringemaking to me for it's
potential -if nothing else- to get "netnanny" software associating Linux
with "Not child safe" material.

Oren
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