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Re: Faxing and e-mail Modules Added to PhpMed
by Fred Trotter on Thursday September 04, @03:10AM

Chris,
I cannot help but wonder why you are doing what you are doing? FreeMED is a PHP-based system that has all (or at least most) of the functionality of your system, but is available under the GPL.

Why would someone pay $3000 for a license for your software, when exactly the same functionality is available for free (speech and beer) else where? Why would someone pay you to take control of them? I am sure that you will convince people that your software is a good idea, but isnt there some intellectual dishonesty in selling like this?

Obviously I have a bias, I am a core developer for FreeMED and I am pretty enthusiastic about the project, but honestly I do not understand your motivation.

The FreeMED Software Foundation is looking for people that would be able to effectively support FreeMED and you are obviously capable! Why not donate your code, and your time to the FreeMED project. You would be able to make exactly the same amount of money that you do now (From Doctors who NEEDED your help) and your moral position would be alot stronger! The control and safety of controlling your code is an illusion.

For every feature that you would have to add to FreeMED, you would get 10 in return. For every customer that you lost because they choose to install it themselves, there would be 5 who would hire you because they appreciated you not trying to control them.

I am only trying to win you to FreeMED because it is written in PHP! There are other excellent projects written using Zope or Java

Free Software Zealot
Fred Trotter

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