Spatial Galaxy

What happened to the GISDirtbag?

He (or she?) seems to have disappeared off the face of the blogosphere. After stirring the pot with several posts (see example), he is gone.

I wonder, did the lawyers from some unnamed giant take him down? Or did he say the wrong thing about the wrong person/group/software/topic and disappear on a lonely road late at night?

Perhaps he retired and I missed the announcement. In any event it all seems mysterious and to my suspicious mind, perhaps even sinister…

I’ve had to lower my expectations of the Open Source GIS user community. Now that I have your attention, I’ll explain. The OSGIS user community by and large is composed of a great bunch of folks. Its the few that have soured my outlook a bit. I repeatedly see posts to mailing lists blasting one application or the other (usually not to the project’s own list but another). The software stinks, doesn’t work right, the developers are stupid, its not as good as X, Y, or Z, and so forth.

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