RE: [Hardhats-members] Fortune Magazine article on VistA

2006-05-18 Thread Jon Parshall
On 5/17/06, Cameron Schlehuber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... While GPL'ed code does not equate directly to open source, I think a logical case can be made for being able to mix open source and proprietary code in the proper manner and not cause one to become the other. That's correct.

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fortune Magazine article on VistA

2006-05-18 Thread Nancy Anthracite
What is a bottle management utility? Sounds like something to tell you who gets the next bottle of beer! On Thursday 18 May 2006 08:49, Jon Parshall wrote: On 5/17/06, Cameron Schlehuber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... While GPL'ed code does not equate directly to open source, I think a

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fortune Magazine article on VistA

2006-05-17 Thread Ben Mehling
On 5/15/06, Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't opensource+proprietary=proprietary?Hi Kevin-I'm not sure I understand the question. Surely you aren't suggesting that because certain interfaces provided by 3rd party software vendors are proprietary, that the entire solution is thus

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fortune Magazine article on VistA

2006-05-17 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
On 5/17/06, Ben Mehling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These vendors (who, by the way, were wonderful to work with) should not be slighted because they choose to market and support commercial software. I think that's a typo--by now we all know that commercial isn't synonymous with proprietary. But

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fortune Magazine article on VistA

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
On 5/17/06, Joseph Dal Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben, You are correct in saying that Kevin's equation is incorrect..according to the 9th OSI criteria, open source licenses must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software. I am no expert

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fortune Magazine article on VistA

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
I guess I was thinking of the VistA Imaging package that depends on a commercial plug-in. The rest of the package is open-source, but none of us can use it without purchasing that $1000 commercial part. So in that case opensource + propietary(commercial) = proprietary(commercial). So with

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fortune Magazine article on VistA

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
On 5/17/06, Cameron Schlehuber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... While GPL'ed code does not equate directly to open source, I think a logical case can be made for being able to mix open source and proprietary code in the proper manner and not cause one to become the other. OK. I stand corrected.

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fortune Magazine article on VistA

2006-05-17 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
AM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Fortune Magazine article on VistA On 5/17/06, Joseph Dal Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben, You are correct in saying that Kevin's equation is incorrect..according to the 9th OSI criteria, open source licenses

[Hardhats-members] Fortune Magazine article on VistA

2006-05-17 Thread Ben Mehling
On 5/17/06, Joseph Dal Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are correct in saying that Kevin's equation is incorrect..My assumption was, based on the terseness of the reply, that I misunderstood the statement. I was asking for clarification of Kevin's question -- I may have jumped too quickly to