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I did call out GDAL, but missed the whole OSGeo ecosystem, I’m afraid. Very cool to hear that QGIS is such a prominent piece of software in professional settin

I did call out GDAL, but missed the whole OSGeo ecosystem, I’m afraid. Very cool to hear that QGIS is such a prominent piece of software in professional settings! I’m just a software/data engineer who dabbles in this stuff for fun, so I had no idea. Lots of comments here asserting the same thing. It would be amazing to see OSS (even though not truly FOSS) replace industry giants. I see this happening a lot in my space, where a lot of OSS (mostly Apache, some MIT and consorts) overtakes commercial offerings.

geenew 4y ago
> I did call out GDAL I see that now, sorry! Excellent article, by the way, it's very useful to have this kind of writeup. I suspect it's something to do with the distributed installation, and the amount of the required behaviour that is sitting behind completed specifications. Eventually, it will be cheaper for a user to just pay for development of any remaining features they need than pay for licensing. And, the functionality addition is cumulative - pay once, keep forever.