Re:CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City
by hutch120 on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @07:33PM
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We should ask the long term question, what if QGIS and other FLOSS products had broad support and significant resources flowing into them that ESRI has?
The way I think about it, often the same people, certainly people with the similar skillsets are working on all these products, most of them just follow the money.
I think one big missing piece of the puzzle for governments to assess these products is a governance and risk model associated with these products. But software engineers generally don't give a crap about governance, so we need more people who do care about that to invest in OSS. I'm seeing some movement on this like the Github Sponsors initiative.
The way I think about it, often the same people, certainly people with the similar skillsets are working on all these products, most of them just follow the money.
I think one big missing piece of the puzzle for governments to assess these products is a governance and risk model associated with these products. But software engineers generally don't give a crap about governance, so we need more people who do care about that to invest in OSS. I'm seeing some movement on this like the Github Sponsors initiative.