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Not good for public perception of company.
by Alfred Smith on Wednesday August 02, @05:32PM

Maybe I'm missing something here but isn't this company's entire marketing strategy is that of openness and open source software. Medsphere seems to be sending conflicting messages over how committed they are to open source saying words like proprietary code. Medsphere's proprietary platform OpenVistA sounds more like an oxymoron. I truly believe that the executives had no intention of really making Medsphere's VistA open or open source.

From reading their brochure, I thought that they were using an open source subscription type model for generating revenue. Why the big fuss over releasing OpenVistA client code so that it could be truly open?

This company is making it look as if they are very unstable and is giving the impression to the public that it is divided, riddled with internal conflict at the core, and may not be around in the near future. Suing the founders would scare the hell out of me if I were considering contracting Medsphere to handle my medical facility's critical data and systems. They should have just handled this internally and had the code removed off of sourceforge quietly instead of getting lawyers and the courts involved.

Alfred Smith

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