Sam Heard wrote:
> Dear David
>
> Ocean is working to make it easy to adopt openEHR inside systems or as
> adaptors to existing systems - through shared tools that support its
> use. We are hoping to open source some more of these tools - what we
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Sam, I think I speak for many when I feel a chill down my spine when I read
that.
I don't doubt that that you mean well, but past experience is that relying
on a commerical operator to open-source vital components can be very
frustrating.
(I'm thinking of Argus messanging service)
Argus was eventually open-sourced, but after years of harmful delay, and
incompletely so.
It is a special category in that the project was initally funded with
taxpayer's money.
You are advocating (I assume) that we use an OpenEHR backend to the exclusion
of others, that is, that we simply wait until you finish and choose to release
it
(we can't help you because it's not open-sourced yet)
What if you change your mind? (or have it changed for you by other commerical
interests?)
What if we're still having this conversation in 2010?
What if it's only in .NET? (let's just say we're not here because we like
windows!)
4 or 5 simple open-source EHRs could have been written in the time GEHR/OpenEHR
has been in gestation,
I think we can squeeze in a sixth.
Don't get me wrong, the advantages you describe are compelling, when, but only
when, OpenEHR is ready and released under an
acceptable licence, I would fully support using it.
Ian
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