Editorial: Is Medsphere an Open Source Company or Not?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 13, 2006 5:42 AM EDT
GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News; By Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS 		Mail this story
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After years of publicly saying they are an Open Source company, and the 'leading provider of Open Source software for the healthcare industry',Medsphere Corp. has yet to release their core product OpenVista® as Open Source. It is entirely their right to use the Veterans Affairs VistA codebase, modify, rewrite and not release it to the VistA community. However, holding forth as loudly and as publicly as they have that they are an Open Source company while not releasing their core software, makes me question the sincerity of their claim of being the 'leading provider' of Open Source. Especially in the face of suing the founders of the company for many millions of dollars because they actually released company developed software as open source on Sourceforge.

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