http://www.jasonbirch.com/nodes/2007/09/21/130/value-proposition-for-open-source-geospatial/ ...Jason Birch's geospatial ramblings Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:29:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.jasonbirch.com/nodes/2007/09/21/130/value-proposition-for-open-source-geospatial/#comment-49445 Sean Gillies Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:48:24 +0000 http://www.jasonbirch.com/nodes/2007/09/21/130/value-proposition-for-open-source-geospatial/#comment-49445 In a way, GDAL and FME are sorta like Ruby on Rails and Basecamp: the open source framework and the derived commercial application. Except that Safe is still in the 20th century business model of selling software, and so they've got to keep a huge amount of it proprietary. 37signals, on the other hand, is selling *services* and benefits from open sourcing much more of their software. In a way, GDAL and FME are sorta like Ruby on Rails and Basecamp: the open source framework and the derived commercial application. Except that Safe is still in the 20th century business model of selling software, and so they’ve got to keep a huge amount of it proprietary. 37signals, on the other hand, is selling *services* and benefits from open sourcing much more of their software.

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