352ILWIS Joins 52 North

2007-02-01T16:04:13Z

ILWIS is going open source, but to 52°North instead of OSGeo:

In order to create better opportunities for the reuse and deployment of GIS functionality in a wider community, the ITC directorate has recently decided to make current ILWIS software free of charge and to migrate it as such to open source software under the 52°North initiative.

I don't know what to make of this curious development.

Comments

1Re: ILWIS Joins 52 North

Allan, 2007-02-01T16:26:11Z

52North is associated with people from the University of Muenster, which is geographically pretty close to ITC in Enschede. I think there's a bit of cross pollinization there.

2Re: ILWIS Joins 52 North

pat, 2007-02-01T21:12:55Z

ITC is actually one of the founders and a driving force of 52North, this step therefore seems to be obvious. (http://52north.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=104)

3Re: ILWIS Joins 52 North

Sean, 2007-02-01T22:12:38Z

Pat, that makes sense to me. Clearly, I must educate myself about 52North.

4Re: ILWIS Joins 52 North

Allan, 2007-02-01T22:13:09Z

What? You actually looked up some facts? Whatever happened to truthiness?

5Re: ILWIS Joins 52 North

Sean, 2007-02-01T22:38:48Z

Allan, I'm guilty of not looking past OSGeo to see what was actually happening. No contest. I don't understand where truthiness comes in.

6Re: ILWIS Joins 52 North

Allan, 2007-02-02T14:55:39Z

Sean - the truthiness thing was aimed at Pat who clearly went way beyond the bounds and looked up the facts. There is an interesting twinge of tension surrounding 52N because of the ESRI angle. I think it's strictly because people don't trust ESRI to play nicely in Open Source. But when you think about it, nowadays pretty much every major player in any software-centric industry should be dipping their toe into the FOSS water. So ESRI was bound to do it somehow, and, just like the initial suspicion around Autodesk, they will have to weather a bumpy period of acclimatization.

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