First of all, this is not a WorldVistA list, this is Hardhats. If
WorldVistA chooses to focus entirely on GT.M that is their choice, but
not everyone running (or interested in running) VistA will use GT.M,
and the intent of this list is to focus on VistA infrastructure
regardless of the platform. 

--- Ruben Safir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 11:18, Greg Woodhouse wrote:
> > Off hand, I don't know, but members of this list do seem to have a
> > tendency to "plug" GT.M (presumably because it is open source).
> > Personally, I think we'd all benefit from a little more vendor
> > neutrality.
> 
> Good Morning!
> 
> I don't know what vendor neutral is.  When something is Free
> Software,
> it means that the programmer and user have control of their destiny. 
> When the software is not free, it means they have zero control, and
> are
> almost always abused.  Should this reality be ignored because of
> someones private interests or feature set?
> 
> I can't speak for others, but I always do whats best for me and my
> clients.  And that means I use Free Software always.
>  
> Ruben
> 
> > 
> > --- Thurman Pedigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > . GT.M, for
> > > > instance is quite
> > > > capable of uploading and downloading binary data, such as
> images,
> > > just
> > > > fine. It can also
> > > > easily hand off that task to utilities available in the Linux
> > > environment.
> > > 
> > > Hmm - Does Cache not have this capability?
> > > 
> > > thurman
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ===
> > Gregory Woodhouse  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> > "Design quality doesn't ensure success, but design failure can
> ensure failure."
> > 
> > --Kent Beck
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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