In the early 1980s MIT programmer Richard Stallman decided to build a replacement to the very expensive, proprietary UNIX computer operating system and make it completely free. His idea of what free meant extended the boundaries a bit when he formed the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and included in his mission statement, “availability of source [...]
With the iHRIS suite of software we decided from the start that it would be open source. There are many benefits to making a piece of software open source – and many more websites devoted to those reasons. Our main reason was people. We want to empower the people who use iHRIS to be able [...]
David Mason is an HRIS Advisor at IntraHealth. Previous to joining IntraHealth David made a career in the world of open source software including work at Red Hat, Inc. David hopes to use his knowledge of open source to help benefit the developing world and health informatics.