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Esri is an anticompetitive company leeching taxpayer dollars that only exists because ArcGIS trapped the government before many govcon laws preventing vendor lo
by cuuupid 3y ago
Esri is an anticompetitive company leeching taxpayer dollars that only exists because ArcGIS trapped the government before many govcon laws preventing vendor lock in were put in place.
We would have 10x the mapping capabilities and much higher velocity on defense tech without this parasitic company.
Btw, also recently fined for blatant sexism against hundreds of female employees.
- partitioned 3y agoYeah esri sucks and it’s software is worse than open source but it’s the only thing they teach because contracts
- sien 3y agoThe open source geospatial community is pretty amazing : https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page Esri in the cloud is terrible. Geoserver is much better. Cloud Native Geospatial might break Esri's hold : https://cloudnativegeo.org/ https://cloudnativegeo.org/