Open source and messaging’s future
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| It’s a triumph of the open-source approach to solve a problem: people just
| saying, “Let’s do it!” The CAP never would have happened if we relied on the
| marketplace, or on the government, as neither was interested in creating
| this.
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http://www.washingtontechnology.com/print/22_20/31752-1.html
Medsphere Adds New Chief Medical Officer to Growing Executive Team
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| Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading commercial provider of Open
| Source-based electronic health record (EHR) systems and services, today
| announced the appointment of Edmund Billings, MD, as Chief Medical Officer.
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http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/CorporateNews/en/14164763/Medsphere-Adds-New-Chief-Medical-Officer-to-Growing
Related:
Is Microsoft Hijacking Open Source?
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| What really worries me is what looks like an emerging pattern in Microsoft's
| behaviour. The EU agreement is perhaps the first fruit of this, but I predict
| it will not be the last. What is happening is that Microsoft is effectively
| being allowed to define the meaning of “open source” as it wishes, not as
| everyone else understands the term. For example, in the pledge quoted above,
| an open source project is “not commercially distributed by its
| participants” - and this is a distinction also made by Kroes and her FAQ.
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| In this context, the recent approval of two Microsoft licences as
| officially “open source” is only going to make things worse. Although I felt
| this was the right decision – to have ad hoc rules just because it's
| Microsoft would damage the open source process - I also believe it's going to
| prove a problem. After all, it means that Microsoft can rightfully point to
| its OSI-approved licences as proof that open source and Microsoft no longer
| stand in opposition to each other. This alone is likely to perplex people who
| thought they understood what open source meant.
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| What we are seeing here are a series of major assaults on different but
| related fields – open source, open file formats and open standards. All are
| directed to one goal: the hijacking of the very concept of openness. If we
| are to stop this inner corrosion, we must point out whenever we see wilful
| misuse and lazy misunderstandings of the term, and we must strive to make the
| real state of affairs quite clear. If we don't, then core concepts like “open
| source” will be massaged, kneaded and pummelled into uselessness.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1003745
Microsoft: Be afraid, be very afraid
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;710755567;fp;4194304;fpid;1
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