I mislead with the term "open source". Let me stay with lower case term "open development" to describe what I believe is the core innovation of DHCP/VistA and that dates far back in the misty past. Before Linus Torvalds started.
The movement that produced DHCP was essentially the same sort of open collaboration among users, developers, and deep thinkers that we have been blessed to see replicated in the development of Linux, Apache, etc. etc. Legally, VOE is public domain. Just fancied up FOIA. That is clear from both the CMS website and from WorldVistA's description of the VVSO (For its own work WorldVistA has chosen the GPL for any enhancements that it adds to VistA. That work <<will>> be technically open source.) I assert that each FOIA VistA release is a dead artifact of the living development process within the VA community that produced it. And it's pretty lifeless out in the rest of the world until our community gets to work on it. I am anxious for us to get on with this process, that's all. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
