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Re: Medsphere's Open Source Stance
by Rob Friedman on Friday November 24, @12:51PM

A few thoughts on the above. Sure the software stack for VistA may have been made open source. Unfortunately your proprietary installation tools aren't as you stated. Shouldn't it be easy as eating pumpkin pie when installing open source software? Let's say Microsoft made Windows Open Source, but decided to make their installation software proprietary. See how stupid this sounds?

Also delaying releases of certain pieces of the open source part of the code was a bad move. If you have newer software, that fixes issues current users are having, release it. Hell, just put the entire code base up for anonymous read only access using Subversion, or CVS, like real open source projects do.

Also with the choice of DMCA abusing, back stabbing board members, maybe you should have found someone more committed to the community.

Face it, your company screwed up. No one wants to trust you guys, and rightly so. A company with an open vision, should have properly licensed the software to be open and free from the company's own abuse.

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