On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:37, Thomas Beale wrote:well, GeHR was open source, and available on the web. Admittedly we didn't do a very good job on packaging it, and it's since been overtaken by openEHR. But if the GPCG here ever gets the funding for the archetype editor work, that will certainly be open source (it already is...), version controlled and well documented...
Thomas,it's government funded, so it should be!
Is this going to be Free/Open Source software?
It should, of course. But so far I am not aware of any government funded health software projects that resulted in open source code - ever.
Also, a lot of EU projects are open sourced; that's essentially a mix of government & private funding.
What I think you really mean is that governments have to be dragged kicking and screaming (or else blissfully ignorant) to the idea of *giving up control* of something (shock, horror;-); certainly our government suffers badly from IP-sickness.
- thomas
