To add to David's and Wayne's perspectives and borrowing a quote from another colleague with a slight edit from me:
"the perfect is often the enemy of the good [enough]" Joseph On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 06:02, David Chan wrote: > Perhaps I'll add my nickle's worth here. I have personally come to > believe that an Open Source project is characterized by an openness to > collaborate with others. If one is to work on an OS project alone then > gives it away for free - that makes the person a Santa Claus! I have in > fact learned that there are many who have the good intention to share > their code but few who truly embrace the OS community spirit. I > understand Horst's frustration (and others). The fact that we keep > hearing that a certain OS will some day be released but in the mean > time it's not open for collaboration makes one wonder if it truly is an > OS project at all. > David > > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:08:26 +1000 > Thomas Beale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Ho wrote: > > > > >On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Tim Churches wrote: > > >... > > > > > > > > >>Horst Herb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >... > > > > > > > > >>>On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:11, Tim Churches wrote: > > >>> > > >>> > > > > > >Thomas, Horst and Tim, > > > So, just to clarify. > > > I gather that none you know of any specific plan to publish the > > >Australian implementation of OpenEHR under an open source license? > > > > > > > > the implementation of which I am talking is _one_ implementation of > > openEHR, being done for a clinical trial as part of the national > > HealthConnect programme. This isn't the _reference_ implementation of > > the openEHR specifications however, which is underway, and which will > > definitely be released open source. The HealthConnect project is to > > build a system for a particular need, the openEHR reference work will > > build high-quality, re-usable openEHR components which can be used in > > many systems. As you might imagine there are a number of projects > > using openEHR specifications - there is nothing to stop anyone using > > them, but there is no obligation on users of the specs to release > > their code. > > > > - thomas > > > > > > David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP > Associate Professor > Department of Family Medicine > McMaster University > http://oscarhome.org > >
