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VA changing licensing of VistA software
- pasbesoin 15y agoOk, I'm giving up around p 7. Can you/someone summarize the license changes? What I skimmed read more like a refactoring for the purpose of creating a differently managed (I'm not sure I'm willing to believe "better", especially in that it looks like further development may be outsourced -- driven by some consensus of specifications delivered to the vendor) core that can accept both publicly developed (and, presumably, licensed) and privately developed... plugins, for lack of a better term. I seem to recall VistA receiving more than a bit of praise -- if I'm not confusing it with something else. Broader adoption nonetheless has been slow -- probably hamstrung by the variegated demands and political pressures of private insurers. Given the Obama Administration's mixed record on technological development, I was/am curious to see where VistA is now being taken. P.S. I'm no expert in this stuff, and the above is simply from memory of past news stories and whatnot. I may have some or all of it wrong. P.P.S. I originally started a comment in order to post a "friendlier" URL to the Word document, à la Google Docs: http://docs.google.com/gview?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov%2FFBODocumentServer%2FDocumentServer.aspx%3FDocumentId%3D177333%26FileName%3DVA118-11-RI-0194-000.DOCX http://docs.google.com/gview?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vendorpor...
- thyrsus 15y agoThanks for the copy. Cybertrust Inc., currently a subsidiary of Verizon, signed the VA's certificate and appears to be a legitimate CA; is there any particular reason why that certificate authority did not ship with my (very) recent Firefox?