I'm fairly certain anyone reading this already knows what I am about to say -- but I am in the trenches working on a day-to-day basis at a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center on an NT based system suffering overt hostility to anything open source or free.
To me, this is something to be considered a daily humiliation. No on-the-fly updates, weakness in terms of modular security, etc. Viruses, hello kitty worm or whatever in the e-mail that no BSD, Linux or Unix administrator would have to worry. I don't envy my IT personnel at all. My County Public Health apparatus apparently played with open source solutions only to find themselves tied to a singular incompetent provider of services without getting that they could go elsewhere instead apparently personalizing the problem. While this thread is of course concerned with far more lofty issues a few salient comments might be of use, as many in my facility will recognize the high-end quite readily without realizing they might have it all of a piece. It is important to make clear the connection between peer review in software and in medicine. I really don't think this has been made plain. It will be obvious to medical professionals right away what's going on when the matter is placed in this way. This concept is readily comprehensible to any medical person and should be stressed. There is no medicine without it, and there are times when I wonder if it in fact does more in software than it does in medicine although I must hope that isn't really true. It is by definition a merciless and purely scientific concept. Secondarily, (and why I kept silent on our move to a proprietary system in the absence of a complete alternative at that time), billing has to made clean. Again, I am not sure if that is really worth the efforts of the free software element because it's a lot of stupid idiotic nonsense here in North America not really worth the writing but the fact also remains if free software is to replace insecure proprietary offerings then there has to be a back end for the infuriating North American billing system, something that certainly could not be offered by GNUMed at the time of the changeover cited above and not even the FOIA efforts being kicked up off of the VA software for clinics which was not complete at that moment either. So what am I stuck with? Crappy, insecure software which insults me every day and threatens to take over the world with insecure buggy expensive garbage... I know, my poor cousin worked on Outlook -- I told him then what I thought....but here I am....suffering.....with Outlook, this insecure, insult to software writers everywhere years later. I ask you, why? It may be better the high-end should be concentrated on imaging and such, I can't say. It is a question, not an answer. But someday I hope you might get to us, too. Keep well, A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANpYQuUaWB_8aKJSERddqhH11yAPigyDSSSSt_uf0vRM2=v...@mail.gmail.com
