Scott McNealy, Chairman and a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has told the BBC that he has been asked by President Obama to prepare a paper on open source for the new administration. McNealy told the BBC that he wants to make sure that the government avoids getting "locked in" to one specific vendor or company.
Geoff Zeiss
May 2019
Links
- Ed Parson's Blog
- Geospatial World
World’s largest geospatial technical resource portal with over 55,000 pages of papers, articles, news, and analysis on the geospatial industry - It's all about data
Safe Software's geospatial data integration platform enables different data and systems to work together - James Fee's Blog
- Lidar News
Gene Roe's laser scanning industry news - Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGEO
OSGeo was created to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software and promote its widespread use - Paul Ramsey's Blog
- Planet OSGEO
- Sensors and systems
- USGIF GotGeoint Blog
USGIF promotes geospatial intelligence tradecraft and a stronger community of interest between government, industry, academia, professional organizations and individuals focused on the development and application of geospatial intelligence to address national security objectives.
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