Brian Bray wrote:
> I think this thread has gone as far as possible without the concrete
> details which will be published real soon now. I appreciate that you and
> Ignatio are worried about the impact of Spirit on your respective
> endeavours, but the answer is to ask, to listen, and to propose
> collaboration that advances Spirit goals at the same time as your own
> objectives.
>
> -Brian
> --
> Brian Bray
> Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL
> The home of Openhealth(tm): http://www.openhealth.com
Greetings Brian,
That's Ignacio with a 'c'. Your above statement is known as horse-hockey
in Texas. I congratulated you and asked you directly and very publicly on
this list several months ago how LinuxMedNews could participate in Spirit.
I received no reply.
The only message I have ever received from you was a private stop posting
'ads'(?) to the list. This smelled to high heaven when only hours later you
solicited partners for Spirit, essentially the same thing. I have e-mailed
you privately saying that we should collaborate. In it I outlined how
LinuxMedNews has greatly furthered this list and OSHCA by providing a large
amount of public exposure, links and mentions to openhealth on my site for
months. I pointed out how I even put the Spirit press release on
LinuxMedNews front page despite it apparently directly competing with
LinuxMedNews.
I received no reply.
Granted I get story ideas from this list, but I also put back a lot. I
asked Yves Paindaveine long ago to collaborate on a project list.
I received no reply.
Yves project listing is prominent on the Spirit site. Correct me if I am
wrong Yves, but I assume from this that you are an integral part of Spirit.
This is BAD. Minoru is what, 3 employees? Most projects have just a few
coders. While the actual deployment pie is huge for open source medical
software, the number of players and people involved is not huge. Don't
underestimate how big and messy this whole free and open source medical
software thing is! We are flies on the back of an elephant. Likewise this
will likely be a financial and resource struggle for some years to come so
before anyone begins dividing up the world, buckle yourselves in for the
long haul. Collaboration (but not blind collaboration) is important. I'll
still collaborate with Minoru and Spirit if asked, I can't say that I won't
be watching my back. Besides, Brian I can save you a lot of trouble:
LinuxMedNews has much of what Spirit proposes already although it is
possible that these things will of necessity split along US, European and
other lines. So don't count your chickens before they've hatched and may
the best man/woman/company/software win.
-- IV
