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  • It’s cause Epic/McKesson has complete control over the EMR world so everything has to work with them to some degree.

    GNU health is great but I haven’t seen where it could support the massive amount of legal and monetary hoops that Epic and co have to jump through as well.

    For some reason there just isn’t a lot of volunteer efforts/space for open source development in the healthcare world.


  • This feels like the same kind of issue mesa just had around the zlib update breaking downstream user programs (viewperf). If there are significant downstream issues for users you shouldn’t upgrade, even if that is the end goal.

    Projects that are big and important get old and bloated because they need to try and span legacy issues alongside their attempts at newer paradigms. It’s just kind of the natural lifecycle of these projects.





  • I switched to guix and haven’t looked back.

    Mostly because:

    1. I like the idea of functional package managers
    2. I like guix’s dedication to making every package buildable from source (thus the no non-libre code rule)
    3. I like the expressiveness of scheme vs Nix’s package description language

    Guix is the smoothest time I’ve ever built packages for a distro before (well outside arch). Which is good because there’s a lot of out of date and unadded packages for potential.