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Linux Planet Interviews Linux Medical News Editor (That’s Me!)

A little shameless self-promotion. Linux Planet has an article about me (and Linux Medical News)! ‘…Valdes said that when he started the LinuxMedNews site it was a tight knit community with a crystal clear idea that FOSS (free and open source software) was the way to go in medicine.

“The idea has become more accepted and may not be revolutionary anymore but it still has skeptics,” he said. “Like everything, having the idea takes 10 minutes and implementing that idea takes years. The major changes are that there is gathering scientific evidence for what the FOSS community is doing and the number of and quality of real-world implementations has grown tremendously…’