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Medsphere Betrays Community

Posted by Fred Trotter on Sunday November 12, 2006 @ 07:48 PM
from the medsphere-corp dept.
Medsphere Corporation, which claims to be 'the leading supplier of open source software for the healthcare industry' recently sued its founders, the Shreeve brothers, for releasing company software as Open Source on Sourceforge. The key argument in the lawsuit is whether the Shreeves informed Medsphere CEO Ken Kizer that they intended to release code on sourceforge before doing so. I have proof that Ken Kizer was informed of the release. Further I have confirmed that Medsphere appears to be suing anyone who downloaded the code from SourceForge for racketeering. I am releasing this information only after Eric Raymond and I have attempted to reach a peaceful resolution with Medsphere.

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Re: Medsphere Betrays Community
by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Monday November 13, 2006 @ 12:40 AM

Download Medsphere's Open sourced product, get sued. Remarkable. -- IV

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Re: Medsphere Betrays Community
by Chairman Meow on Monday November 13, 2006 @ 10:57 PM

That is why Open Source will NEVER work. Long-live capitalism and profiting at the publics' expense.

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Re: Medsphere Betrays Community
by Mark Spohr on Monday November 13, 2006 @ 08:20 PM

So... where can we download it? Doesn't seem to still be on Sourceforge unless it has a different name.

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Re: Medsphere Betrays Community
by Fred Trotter on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @ 04:44 PM

SourceForge yanked the code because Medsphere claimed that the code had been posted improperly. So the code was only available for a few days. -FT

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