Thank you for your thoughts Calle. The reason I pulled the plug on the Hancom Linux Office Suite discussion is because it it a proprietary product. I would do the same if someone announced a review of MS-Office on this list. Hancom's product offering is not a "complete open source solution" as far as I can tell.
Open source applications and their use in healthcare settings are valid topics on the list. Promoting or evaluating proprietary (closed) products on the list, even if they run on the Linux OS, are not. This is why Joseph's posting is inappropriate. There may be those who are unclear on what open source is really all about. There are many sources of information to clarify this. A basic proviso is that if there is no source code available, it is not open. It does not matter what OS it runs on. This is why postings about Hancom's office suite is not acceptable on this list. Enough said. -- Dave Scott, List Manager Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL, the home of Openhealth(tm) 3, rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris France Office: +33 (1) 30.61.18.43 Mobile: +33 (6) 89.49.01.91 Web site: http://www.openhealth.com On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Calle Hedberg wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with Joseph in principle - open source software relevant for the > health sector is more than exclusive "health" apps. > > On the other hand, the response does not seem to be particularly useful. I > asked this list a year or two ago about assessments of Open Office, and the > only answers were of the type "I like it a lot, myself". Joseph seems to be > getting the same type of answers, so maybe it's the wrong list after all. Or > maybe he should have added a comment about considering MS Office instead - > you sure get replies then ;-). > > Regards > Calle
