[TriLUG] Medsphere and Open Source

[Ivan Panarusky]

Wait, what? So if I'm getting this right, they are selling open source
software?

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org> wrote:

> Gang:
>
> In an effort to lighten the list a little, I went off on Medsphere on my
> blog today:
>
> http://blogs.opennms.org/?p=814
>
> Medsphere is a company founded by two brothers to provide open source
> medical software. They raised investment capital, developed some code, put
> it on Sourceforge and were promptly sued by their investors for US$50
> million. Needless to say, they are not involved with Medsphere anymore.
>
> Medsphere is still around, so I have a personal goal to make sure no one
> forgets what they did.
>
> Now back to your regularly scheduled flame war.
>
> -T
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