It is important to note that we all have come to expect the VA to make its improvements available to everyone via FOIA....is it not reasonable to expect others who benefit from the VA's and taxpayer investment in VistA to do the same. If that is not reason enough then let me point out that it is this quid pro quo that fuels a virtuous spiral of improvement that in turn positively impacts health outcomes...this is essentiallly the kind of process that created VistA and has fueled the VA's success in health quality. The fact that we are still chasing the holy grail of integrated EHR's and health information systems outside of the VA is ample proof that the legacy software business models are incapable of spawning this kind of improvement in software.
Joseph
Roy Gaber wrote:
VistA is Public Domain, not Open Source, always has been, always (at least should) will be.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ignacio Valdes Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 4:38 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Hardhats-members] VistA licensing.
I would suspect that the license would have to come down to either GNU GPL or FreeBSD type-license. Now, deciding between the two: let the games begin! :-)
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