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The beauty of Free Software Development and Free Software Community
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| Free Software Community is fundamentally a meritocracy where you get judged
| by your contribution and your capability. It is not that people are ruthless
| and look only from the meritocratic perspective. On the contrary people are
| normally ready to help you while you are out there. When you face problems
| somebody would guide you towards a solution. Experts will normally help you
| move in the path towards expertise. When you make mistakes people will
| criticize you, but then they will also tell you how to rectify your errors,
| and would probably also help you rectify your errors.
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http://anoopjohn.com/09/03/13/the-beauty-of-free-software-development-and-free-software-community
On Medieval Barbering, Wal-Mart and One Size Fits All With Health IT
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| How is it possible that the Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics
| computerized themselves very effectively as far as anyone can tell without
| proprietary EMR's and proprietary EMR vendors? That a large reason for their
| success is that they made a conscious decision long ago to do something that
| pre-dates Free/Open Source and looks very much like Free/Open Source? Or is
| this yet another instance of 'one size does not fit all'? For the VA, one
| size very much does fit all as long as software freedom is safeguarded in
| both the hospitals and clinics with demonstrable superiority.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1236901534
Recent:
A Different VistA for the NHS?
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| As I noted earlier last year, the Open Health Tools Foundation mentioned
| above was actually co-founded by a group of organisations including NHS
| Connecting for Health. This latest move of DSS should strengthen the OHT
| Foundation enormously, and make VistA even more attractive to healthcare
| providers around the world - including the NHS. Could this be the straw that
| finally broke the proprietary camel's back in UK healthcare? What will be the
| NHS's, er, view?
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1714
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