On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 John S. Gage wrote:
> I take it that RedHat ("Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the
> Software Business and Took Microsoft by Surprise" by Robert Young, Wendy
> Goldman Rohm) has nothing to do with competition with a commercial
> vendor? I take it that you are not on the RedHat bus? What are the
> design issues with FreeMed, so that the group can examine them?
The above comment is not involved in what I have to say below -- it is a
valid comment, and I have absolutely no problem with it, but I was unable
to find a copy of the original message quoted below.
Well... Everyone likes to flame everyone else on this list, I see.
There is nothing wrong with standards or bodies to govern any of the
software or interchange concerns, but there is when it prevents people from
doing things.
Complain about my dislike for a particular commercial system, which will
remain nameless. How many Linux kernel hackers dislike Microsoft? Most of
the KDE team has been making a wonderful desktop (slightly large though it
may be), while people from GNOME have complained about technicalities in
licensing, because GNOME has been, and will be for some time, inferior in
many ways to KDE. Complain all you want about Freemed or standard X or
project Y. It doesn't matter in the least whether you like my motivations
or my code base.
Code your own project, help someone else out, do whatever. But don't tear
me or anyone else down, or disrespect the hard work they have poured into
projects.
Naysayers are a dime a dozen. Please say something positive, or try to find
some other forum to speak on. The negativity on this list is amazing.
GEHR is better! CorbaMed is the future! Java or bust! Give it up. No one is
*ever* going to agree on one thing, or else we'd all be coding one project.
Just as Linux and FreeBSD do not share the same kernel, so Freemed,
Circare, FreePM, etc do not. They still interoperate very well, but they
are not the same to the core.
If you don't like someone else's work or motives, improve on them instead
of cutting them down. More gets done that way. After 7 months of coding the
majority of a project and listening to everyone talk but very little get
done, I'm still amazed at how this happens every day in corporate America.
Much talk, little effort.
When you want to talk about interchange standards and interoperability, I'm
all ears. In the meantime, cut the flames. I would rather read productive
comments or criticisms instead of useless drek.
Please restrict your flagrant attitudes in the future to private
conversation.
jeff
Head Project Coder
Freemed Project
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> "Daniel L. Johnson, MD" wrote:
> >
> > > This is exactly what Freemed does. Precisely. There is a link to
> > > Freemed on Minoru.
> > > John Gage
> >
> > Well, I know about Freemed. There are some design issues there;
> > more importantly I have spoken to the programmer and the whole
> > project is mainly an attempt to destroy a disliked commercial
> > vendor. I don't want to climb on that bus.
> >
> > Danl Johnson
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jeff b
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university communications
university of connecticut
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