Re: Where's the money in GIS?

Bernhard Reiter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.freegis
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Am  4. Jan 2006 um 09:12:59 schrieb Arnulf Christl:
> Adam wrote:
> > I was wondering if people on this list would share where they think the
> > money is in GIS?

> > Selling Public Data Sets?
> 
> Does not make sense as it has already been funded and now should be 
> understood as collective property. The old German term "Allmende" 
> describes this best: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmende. Pity it does 
> not translate well into English. Anybody any suggestions?

It translates nicely as common good, common land 
or commons as in "The tragedy of the Commons".
This is why I believe the comparison is bad:
With data that can be copied without loss, the tragedy is missing.

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