Ben,
You are correct in saying that Kevin's equation is incorrect..according
to the 9th OSI criteria, open source licenses "must not insist that all
other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source
software."
The fundamental issue is that using open source code in a product or
calling it Open (remember OpenVMS? etc.) does not make it open
source....which is what Kevin may have been alluding to....and why the
authors of the Fortune article concluded Medsphere OpenVista is proprietary.
May I suggest that a clear and objective rebuttle to the Fortune
Magazine article claim or label that Medsphere OpenVista is proprietary
would be to provide evidence of how it complies with the other nine
criteria of the widely accepted definition of "open source" publised by
OSI : http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php?
Joseph
Ben Mehling wrote:
On 5/15/06, *Kevin Toppenberg* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Doesn't opensource+proprietary=proprietary?
Hi Kevin-
I'm not sure I understand the question. Surely you aren't suggesting
that because certain interfaces provided by 3rd party software vendors
are proprietary, that the entire solution is thus proprietary? Does
that mean when an Oracle RDBMS is running on Linux, the entire solution
"=proprietary"?
The customer had requirements for some interfaces that were not
available in any distribution of VistA. Two vendors provided interfaces
that met the requirements of the customer. Those vendors are in the
business of supporting VistA and other similar systems and thus sell
those interfaces. These vendors (who, by the way, were wonderful to
work with) should not be slighted because they choose to market and
support commercial software.
- Ben
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