Open-Source Advocates Ponder Medsphere's Future | Linux Today

Open-Source Advocates Ponder Medsphere’s Future

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 27, 2007

“When the end finally came last week to the bizarre, 15-month
legal battle between brothers Scott and Steve Shreeve and Medsphere
Systems Corp., Aliso Viejo, Calif., the company they founded in
2002 only to be tossed out of in 2006, members of the healthcare
open-source community posed the next question:

“Just how open will the self-described open-source software
developer be under its new leadership now that the Shreeves are
gone and any legal posturing to preserve the notion that Medsphere
is providing both open-source and proprietary software is no longer
necessary…?”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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