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Re: Not good for public perception of company.
by Eishay Smith on Thursday August 03, 2006 @ 12:09 AM
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| Nowhere in this article I saw any reference to any problem Medsphere has with open sourcing the OpenVistA. Don't know about Jumps and Kickstand, but they are not necessarily part of VistA. A company may be invested in open source but still has some intellectual property which is not open source.
Is everything redhat is doing is open source? |
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Re: Not good for public perception of company.
by Fred Trotter on Monday August 07, 2006 @ 10:33 AM
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While the may have and use proprietary software internally, Redhat does not publish any proprietary software in its products.
The fedora description reads...
The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source project with the goal of working with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software.
Its pretty annoying that they do not provide a patent encumbered mp3 player in fedora, but that is indicative of a commitment to FOSS. Also indicative is the fact that CentOS exists. CentOS means that RedHat has its money where its mouth is.
By your analogy Oracle would be a great Open Source company. After all, you will find them very willing to provide you with a FOSS operating system on which to run their very proprietary database.
The question is what kind of company is MedSphere. They tout themselves as a "RedHat" but they sometimes seem to be an "Oracle". I am hoping for a "RedHat" thats what the community needs.
Fred Trotter
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