On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Joseph Dal Molin wrote: ... > 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
Joseph, It seems that you missed my point, which is: "Where does open source software typically come from" Apache, Linux, and several open source health care applications that I gave as examples all come from in-house development rather than outside vendors. That was the point that I tried to make. The fact that IBM has released some open source tools does not conflict with my statement that, so far, _open source software typically do not come from third-party open-source software developers_. > your rationale for excluding IBM as an open source developer needs a > better foundation. You misunderstood. see here: > > 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. My point was that IBM is not a good example of a typical open source software developer. I did say things may change - but let's get down to discussing why IBM has not released an open source health information system yet, AND what has to happen for them to take that step. my next sentence was: > > I do think so far, open source software _typically_ come from in-house > > development (e.g. VistA, OSCAR, TkFP, Apache, Linux kernel, OIO, GnuMed). Now, the really useful part of the discussion is the following: > > Maybe this will change. Maybe you have some reasonable speculations on why > > this will change? I can think of many reasons why this would be very useful (e.g. for IBM to develop open source hospital information systems). I don't think this is analogous to Microsoft producing/releasing an open source operating system. IBM will still be able to make money from providing service and selling hardware. I am most interested in your thoughts. Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org
