On Wednesday 20 September 2006 07:38, Andrew N. Shrosbree wrote: > 4. Your altruistic motives will be derided by your competition, with > doubt being cast on your true agenda > > 5. You will be vilified by the opensource community if you dare to > deviate from their puritanical, idealistic view of software.
You know that I always have supported Argus and have fought hard to make it happen in our Division and Area Health Services despite the fact that I was not even using it myself, so I hope you will understand what I am saying below (and why I say it): Argus' problem always was and still is that you guys are neither fish nor flesh. Neither really free nor really proprietary, neither really open or really closed. Open source - yes, source code available, of some version, not much published - but dependent on proprietary 3rd party libraries (and at some stage in the past at least dependent on proprietary development tools too). No developer community engagement, no infrastructure for such. Free download - but you have to go through a registration process Free install - but you have to get a registration number It's the same thing as "printing on forms". It's something sitting on a fence that gets shot at from both sides because it does not belong to either side. I doubt Argus will be happy and successful before you guys make your minds up what you really want to be. So, I am grateful that Argus is here. It is useful. It fills a void. It works. But it feels so alien to me. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
