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Arnulf at 14:32, 5 May 2011

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 * OGC White Paper by Carl Reed, "The Importance of Going Open"
 * "FLOSS in Cadastre and Land Registration - Opportunities and Risks" by Arnulf Christl in a publication by the FAO and FIG Commission 7 WG 7.3 (http://www.fig.net/pub/fao/floss_cadastre.pdf)
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−	'''This ~~paper~~ is ~~work in progress~~ and ~~has not yet been officially endorsed~~ by ~~either~~ OGC ~~or OSGeo~~. Please feel free to ~~contribute~~.'''	+	* ''This article is a White Paper jointly published OGC and OSGeo. The text was collaboratively edited, reviewed and finalized by more than a a dozen active OSGeo and OGC members. Thanks especially to Gavin Fleming, Lance McKee, Markus Neteler, Athina Trakas, Michael Gerlek, Adrian Custer, Jeff McKenna, Cameron Shorter, Carl Reed, Frank Warmerdam, Steven Ramage, Daniel Morissette, Arnulf Christl and others for their contributions. ''
		+	* ''Please feel free to add comments, criticisms, links to other concise definitions on the associated [[Talk:Open_Source_and_Open_Standards \| Talk page]]. ''
		+	* This article was approved as an official joint OSGeo and OGC White Paper by the OSGeo Board of Directors in their 2011-05-05 [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2011-05-05 Board meeting].
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	= Open Standards and Open Source =		= Open Standards and Open Source =

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 The freedom to use, explore, modify and give away software freely leads to a completely different motivation for creating the software in the first place. The motivation shifts away from primarily making money to solving a problem. The resulting software is typically more focused to solve a single problem at it's best and more open to integrate with other solutions. For users the investment into Free and Open Source software is more lasting because there is no single entity that can take away the right to continue to use the software which is what proprietary vendors can do.
-Software is not a material good and therefore giving away a copy does not cause a loss. If you give away a brick you do not have it anymore. If you give away a copy of your software, you still have the 'original'. Therfore Free and Open Source software does not work well for business models which are focused on creating a shortage, for example through restrictive licenses. But at the same time Free and Open Source software is not anti-commercial or anti-business. Instead it fosters competition and is the most extreme form of an open market economy by giving everybody the same opportunities – developers, integrators and users alike.
+Software is not a material good and therefore giving away a copy does not cause a loss. If you give away a brick you do not have it anymore. If you give away a copy of your software, you still have the 'original'. Therefore Free and Open Source software does not work well for business models which are focused on creating a shortage, for example through restrictive licenses. But at the same time Free and Open Source software is not anti-commercial or anti-business. Instead it fosters competition and is the most extreme form of an open market economy by giving everybody the same opportunities – developers, integrators and users alike.
 = How is Free and Open Source Software developed? =

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 = Memorandum of Understanding =
-To demonstrate the mutual understanding and accepting the differences in scope of the two organizations, in 2009, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate in advancing open geospatial standards and Open Source geospatial software. As stated on the OSGeo home page, one of the Foundation’s goals is "To encourage the implementation of open standards and standards-based interoperability in foundation projects." The OSGeo's overall goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led Open Source geospatial software projects, and most of these depend on open standards like those from the OGC. Wider use of OGC standards increases interoperability, innovation and market growth, and this benefits developers and users of both Open Source and proprietary software. The OGC on the other hand originates from an Open Source project in the late 80's which early on recognized the need for interoperabilty and to this day strives to have Open Source reference implementations for it's standards.
+To demonstrate the mutual understanding and accepting the differences in scope of the two organizations, in 2009, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate in advancing open geospatial standards and Open Source geospatial software. As stated on the OSGeo home page, one of the Foundation’s goals is "To encourage the implementation of open standards and standards-based interoperability in foundation projects." The OSGeo's overall goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led Open Source geospatial software projects, and most of these depend on open standards like those from the OGC. Wider use of OGC standards increases interoperability, innovation and market growth, and this benefits developers and users of both Open Source and proprietary software. The OGC on the other hand originates from an Open Source project in the late 80's which early on recognized the need for interoperability and to this day strives to have Open Source reference implementations for it's standards.
 Along with general commitments to expand collaboration and promote the synergy between open standards and Open Source software in the geospatial domain, the Memorandum of Understanding provides for the assignment of up to six one-year Individual Memberships in the OGC.

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 '''This paper is work in progress and has not yet been officially endorsed by either OGC or OSGeo. Please feel free to contribute.'''
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 = Open Standards and Open Source  =

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