Re: Australian OpenEHR implementation, was Re: Typed untyped languages

2004-04-24 Thread Calle Hedberg
Tel/fax (home): +27-21-685-6472; Cell: +27-82-853-5352 * - Original Message - From: David Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 12:02 PM Subject: Re: Australian OpenEHR implementation, was Re: Typed untyped

Re: Australian OpenEHR implementation, was Re: Typed untyped languages

2004-04-23 Thread Thomas Beale
Horst Herb wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:37, Thomas Beale wrote: Thomas, Is this going to be Free/Open Source software? it's government funded, so it should be! It should, of course. But so far I am not aware of any government funded health software projects that resulted in open

Re: Australian OpenEHR implementation, was Re: Typed untyped languages

2004-04-23 Thread Thomas Beale
Andrew Ho wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Tim Churches wrote: ... Horst Herb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:11, Tim Churches wrote: Thomas, Horst and Tim, So, just to clarify. I gather that none you know of any specific plan to publish the Australian

Re: Australian OpenEHR implementation, was Re: Typed untyped languages

2004-04-23 Thread David Chan
Perhaps I'll add my nickle's worth here. I have personally come to believe that an Open Source project is characterized by an openness to collaborate with others. If one is to work on an OS project alone then gives it away for free - that makes the person a Santa Claus! I have in fact learned that

Re: Australian OpenEHR implementation, was Re: Typed untyped languages

2004-04-23 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
To add to David's and Wayne's perspectives and borrowing a quote from another colleague with a slight edit from me: the perfect is often the enemy of the good [enough] Joseph On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 06:02, David Chan wrote: Perhaps I'll add my nickle's worth here. I have personally come to

Re: Australian OpenEHR implementation, was Re: Typed untyped languages

2004-04-23 Thread Tim Churches
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 23:11, Joseph Dal Molin wrote: To add to David's and Wayne's perspectives and borrowing a quote from another colleague with a slight edit from me: the perfect is often the enemy of the good [enough] Apparent there is some debate whether it was von Clausewitz or Voltaire

Re: Australian OpenEHR implementation, was Re: Typed untyped languages

2004-04-23 Thread Adrian Midgley
On Friday 23 April 2004 02:38, Horst Herb wrote: It should, of course. But so far I am not aware of any government funded health software projects that resulted in open source code - ever. VistA? -- Adrian Midgley (Linux desktop) GP, Exeter http://www.defoam.net/

Re: Australian OpenEHR implementation, was Re: Typed untyped languages

2004-04-23 Thread Tim Churches
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 20:02, David Chan wrote: Perhaps I'll add my nickle's worth here. I have personally come to believe that an Open Source project is characterized by an openness to collaborate with others. If one is to work on an OS project alone then gives it away for free - that makes

Re: Re: Australian OpenEHR implementation, was Re: Typed untyped languages

2004-04-22 Thread Tim Churches
Horst Herb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:11, Tim Churches wrote: It should, of course. But so far I am not aware of any government funded health software projects that resulted in open source code - ever. How about VistA? And then there are all the health

Re: Australian OpenEHR implementation, was Re: Typed untyped languages

2004-04-22 Thread Andrew Ho
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Tim Churches wrote: ... Horst Herb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:11, Tim Churches wrote: Thomas, Horst and Tim, So, just to clarify. I gather that none you know of any specific plan to publish the Australian implementation of OpenEHR under an open

Re: Re: Australian OpenEHR implementation, was Re: Typed untyped languages

2004-04-22 Thread Tim Churches
Andrew Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Tim Churches wrote: ... Horst Herb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:11, Tim Churches wrote: Thomas, Horst and Tim, So, just to clarify. I gather that none you know of any specific plan to publish the