Superimposing Antiguan history onto clinical computing, one can conjecture that this is the time of the Conquistadors. The open sourcecomputing projects that are being undertaken now will be seen as the beginning of history to future generations for we are at the start of avery long journey towards a future medical landscape. But free and open source medical software is like the sheer impossibility of Antigua. Antigua is a city built on an earthquake fault line, built in the shadows of volcanoes and has been abandoned as the capital city only to be re-discovered years later as a colonial treasure. It is apparent that the possibility of achieving true success by making reality widely used, good clinical computing software is low.
History says it always has been.
But life is always an embracing of the impossible or else it truly isn't lived. Out of impossibility and chaos beauty can result. Antigua endures and so shall free and open source software because it belongs to generations. The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective companies.