Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-26 Thread steven mcphelan
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh? Well, riddle me this.. and I just didn't fall off the turnip truck. Several board members of WorldVista also have a commercial interest in the success of VistA, along with a few outside

Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-26 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh? Well, riddle me this.. and I just didn't fall off the turnip truck. Several board members of WorldVista also have a commercial

Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-26 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
PROTECTED] To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh? Well, riddle me this.. and I just didn't fall off the turnip truck. Several board members of WorldVista

Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-24 Thread Doctor Bones
@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh? The understanding I got was that we wanted to allow companies to be able

Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-24 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh? The understanding I got was that we wanted to allow companies to be able to develop modules that work with VistA, and have them be propriatary. Even

Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-24 Thread Doctor Bones
Several people (as in more than one but less than a billion) have written to me and said that a big reason that they do not participate, even though they are interested in VistA is the lack of an open license. In my previous post I mentioned something about wheels... we should be flying by now...

Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-24 Thread Doctor Bones
Perhaps I am wrong... wait... I know... hard to believe :) BUT My point about FOIA's freeness is that it is free, not open. That is why people take it modify it and make other products from it. If it where open...it would foster more development. Several people I know are interested in

Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-23 Thread Doctor Bones
I realize, that I am doing nothing but muckraking at the moment... and, I know that I am NOT by any means a core vista person or personality. BUT... I am offended that we call openvista, openvista... it isn't covered by the GPL or another license that ensures development happens in the open.

Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-23 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
The understanding I got was that we wanted to allow companies to be able to develop modules that work with VistA, and have them be propriatary. Even on Linux, one can make a commercial program that makes use of open source technology. Kevin Doctor Bones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize, that I

Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-23 Thread Mark Street
It is called context Mano. maybe it was lost in translation and nuance. public domain software is different than open source software which is different than free software. Open Source is thrown around very loosely these days. There are a lot of licenses out there, the license is what

Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-23 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
But doesn't that require a license like the LPGL? Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 23, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: The understanding I got was that we wanted to allow companies to be able to develop modules that work with VistA, and have them be propriatary.  Even on

Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-23 Thread Maury Pepper
- From: Kevin Toppenberg To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh? The understanding I got was that we wanted to allow companies