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  1. …in reply to @MapScaping
    @MapScaping @aseidman @Hivemapper Some very interesting perspectives, thank you both for sharing! I was disappointed however to hear the old trope repeated that choosing proprietary is safer than "being at the whims of an open source project".
    1. …in reply to @underdarkGIS
      @MapScaping @aseidman @Hivemapper Of course "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" (insert GIS equivalent here). However, mature open source projects have commercial support providers that actually enable users to influence software development much more directly than with single-vendor proprietary tools.