A few minutes ago, Bill Hoffman from Kitware posted short message to the CMake project mailing list with an interesting announce:
Kitware launched its first developer blog today with contributions from Company technical and business leaders.
The CMake build system is one of the main category of topics on the Kitware blog, so I presume it may be of interest of OSGeo Community as the CMake build system is slowly winning over more and more folks here :-)
First CMake-related post is about Deploying on Windows with DLL Manifest Issue
Another interesting post on the blog is Will Schroeder‘s answer to the question Why Open Source Will Rule Scientific Computing? It’s really worth reading.
Schroeder’s post was interesting. I’m uncomfortable with open source as a business instrument: keeping your core money-making features proprietary and open-sourcing code to commoditize and peel away the money-making core of your competitors. I’d better get over that, I guess, because that’s part of freedom 0.
Sean, good point. I assume the FOSS as business model is still being trialled and evaluated.
It’s similar to the global warning issue: we know how it basically works and what forces are involved, we can observe its effects but we are not really sure where all this is making its way to…cold drinks in sun or the Earth will implode :-)