Interview: Fred Trotter on Medical Billing (LinuxMedNews) [LWN.net]

LinuxMedNews interviews Fred Trotter of the FreeB medical billing project. "LMN: Why should we care about Free and Open Source medical billing software versus non-free? FT: ...There are two main reasons that people want FOSS. The Free Software people really care about the problem of software licenses being used to control people. The Open Source people are more focused on the benefits of having a more streamlined and efficient development model. Those two reasons apply to medical software in spades. Medical computing is critical to lives of individuals and a society. As such, the licenses that govern medical software should be in the interest of individuals and society, rather than the companies that write the software."

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