TY - GEN
T1 - What constitutes open source? A study of the vista electronic medical record software
AU - Noll, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2009, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Strictly speaking, Open Source Software is any program that is covered by an Open Source Software license. However, the notion of Open Source Software Development conjures images of high-quality, market dominating products developed by armies of volunteer programmers, who work only for the joy of programming. Certainly, banner projects like Apache, the Linux kernel, and Mozilla/Firefox resemble this notion, even if they do employ significant numbers of paid programmers. This paper examines three Open Source Software projects related to the Vista ElectronicMedical Record system developed and maintained by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and released to the public domain. While all three claim to be “Open Source” projects, there is considerable deviation from the strong community-oriented model that Linux, Apache, and Mozilla represent.
AB - Strictly speaking, Open Source Software is any program that is covered by an Open Source Software license. However, the notion of Open Source Software Development conjures images of high-quality, market dominating products developed by armies of volunteer programmers, who work only for the joy of programming. Certainly, banner projects like Apache, the Linux kernel, and Mozilla/Firefox resemble this notion, even if they do employ significant numbers of paid programmers. This paper examines three Open Source Software projects related to the Vista ElectronicMedical Record system developed and maintained by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and released to the public domain. While all three claim to be “Open Source” projects, there is considerable deviation from the strong community-oriented model that Linux, Apache, and Mozilla represent.
KW - Electronic Health Record
KW - Electronic Medical Record
KW - Open Source Software
KW - Software Development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84944229477&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-02032-2_27
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-02032-2_27
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84944229477
SN - 9783642020315
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 310
EP - 319
BT - Open Source Ecosystems
A2 - Boldyreff, Cornelia
A2 - Crowston, Kevin
A2 - Lundell, Bjorn
A2 - Wasserman, Anthony I.
PB - Springer New York LLC
T2 - 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2009
Y2 - 3 June 2009 through 6 June 2009
ER -