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Directions: Open Source Software in the Geographic and Location Industries: A Case Study

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“Open source software promises an attractive range of benefits:
it is free, vendor independent, and open to continual evolution and
improvement by a global development community.

“For the geographic and location industries, the question is:
does open source software work in practice? To offer some possible
answers, we’re going to provide a practical case study of software
development for the geographic and location industries using open
source products and operating systems. We’ll describe our
experiences and provide some commentary on where other companies
could benefit from the introduction of open source into their
services or products.

“So what prompted us to start using, let alone developing, open
source software…?”

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