Andrew,
IBM releases its development tool kit as open source....as you have
noted...Apache and the Linux Kernel are not applications like a hospital
information system....your rationale for excluding IBM as an open source
developer needs a better foundation.
Joseph
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 12:34 AM
Subject: Where does open source software typically come from, was Re:
reportfrom OSHCA 2002 meeting
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> ...
> > > Typically, there is no such thing as a "OSS system developer" whose
job is
> > > to provide solutions that fit the needs of "the maintainers of these
big
> > > systems"!
> >
> > Disagree. Citing IBM as an example.
>
> Adrian,
> I just don't know whether IBM could count as a "open-source software
> system developer". Bill Steagall covered mostly IBM hardware and a little
> about the Eclipse tool platform (www.eclipse.org). I guess when IBM
> produces an open source hospital information system for UCLA, your example
> will be appropriate.
> I do think so far, open source software _typically_ come from in-house
> development (e.g. VistA, OSCAR, TkFP, Apache, Linux kernel, OIO, GnuMed).
>
> Maybe this will change. Maybe you have some reasonable speculations on why
> this will change?
>
> ...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andrew
> ---
> Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
> OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
> www.TxOutcome.Org
>
