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VistA Modernization Report Features Open Source
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| A Veterans Affairs requested VistA
| Modernization Report is now available. The
| good news: it prominently features and
| recommends open source and discusses the
| prospect of VA VistA as a national
| standard.
|
| [...]
|
| Among the reports issues, it calls the GNU
| General Public License 'restrictive'.
| Restrictive of what? Restrictive of the
| ability of proprietary vendors to establish
| and maintain vendor lock-in at the great
| expense of taxpayers and patients? The
| report at times treats open source and
| proprietary EHR software as equals instead
| of proprietary EHR software as a
| destructive invasive species. The report
| probably understates the number of private
| sector VistA deployments as measured by the
| 2008 AMIA Open Source White Paper. Finally,
| it makes the common error of subdividing
| open source vs commercial when open source
| is certainly commercial. They probably mean
| open source vs. proprietary.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1273200424
Open source is NASA's next frontier
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| The challenges to government's adoption and
| participation in open-source communities is
| often thought to be a simple culture clash,
| but in reality it goes deeper than that,
| according to NASA's newly-appointed chief
| technology officer.
|
| âThe issues that we need to tackle are not
| only cuture, but beyond culture,â said
| Chris Kemp, formerly chief information
| officer at NASA's Ames Research Center in
| Moffett Field, Calif. âAnd I think we need
| new policy and support from the
| administration and Congress to help us
| tackle" them.
|
| [...]
|
| And open source is a key element of Kemp's
| strategy. âWe're actually creating a new
| Open Source Office under our Open
| Government Initiative under the Chief
| Technology Officer's office,â he said.
| âWe're really taking this seriously, and
| we've never had this sort of visibility and
| interest from headquarters before.â
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http://fcw.com/articles/2010/05/06/kemp-nasa-open-source.aspx
EU Parliament calls for internet rights charter
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| The Parliament has adopted a new digital
| strategy called 2015.eu which outlines its
| ambitions for internet policy for the next
| five years and beyond. It has passed a
| resolution adopting the plan and demanding
| that the European Commission make it work.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/07/eu_internet_rights_charter/
Promoting Open Source Communities in Panama
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| Universidad Interamericana de Panamà on
| March 25, 2010 was the scenario for an
| opensource and Linux party. Several Linux
| Distros like Ubuntu, CAELinux, Fedora,
| Gentoo, Debian, openSUSE and organizations
| like CIDETYS and business like ELCONIX did
| make presence and their users and members
| gave a Talk for students, academics, users
| and professionals.
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http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/05/07/promoting-open-source-communities-in-panama/
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