YAY!!!!!! oh.... wait... I don't think I am supposed to cheer just yet. :/
Emmanuel. On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 14:26 -0700, Fred Trotter wrote: > Hi, > I remember listening in on a Hardhats con-call recently about > using the GPL for more and more parts of VistA. Given Stallmans > appearance on the last call I wondered if this might be an appropriate > time to bring the issue up. > > For me this is a central issue. The GPL provides the medical > community with protection from software vendors that it simply cannot > get elsewhere. I have started a site, GPLmedicine.org where I argue that > the GPL is the only moral license for medical software. The keep-it-free > nature of the GPL is central to forward progress in healthcare. > > I think the relatively unclear position of Medspheres "version" > of VistA is a pretty good example of why it is important to > keep-it-free. I personally think the people who have been working on > improving VistA for most of their adult lives might resent Medsphere > hoarding its improvements to their life work. Am I wrong? > > I am definitely a peripheral member of this community, but I am > think this is a critical issue for everyone in Open Source software. Is > there any consensus about this issue within the VistA community? Please > feel free to simply point me to a prior discussion. > > Regards, > Fred Trotter > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
