Interview with Fred Trotter: the Medsphere saga
Recently Medsphere, supposedly an “Open Source” Medical Software Company, has sued its founders Scott and Steve Shreeve. Why? Medsphere claims that the Shreeves illegally released Medsphere software to Sourceforge. An “Open Source” Software company is suing its founders for releasing code under a free license... that’s a bit like Ford suing its employees for making cars. Recently Fred Trotter has come forward with evidence that he claims makes the Medsphere lawsuit baseless. Read on for an email interview with Fred Trotter regarding who did what in the Medsphere lawsuit, and why every free software developer should care about what is happening to the Shreeves.
TM: Tell me a little about yourself Fred?
I am first a medical FOSS programmer, but lately I have been getting more attention as an activist. I believe that the GPL is the only moral license to use for medical software. I edit GPLMedicine.org which is site devoted to the defense of that ideal. From that site, I hope to challenge proprietary medical software companies to release under the GPL for moral reasons, and to help them to see that the GPL is not a threat to their business models. I really want to target proprietary medical software companies, but I have been spending most of my time with companies that claim falsely claim to be Open Source.
TM: Who is Medsphere and what did they do to deserve your criticism?
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