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--- en:why-open-from-the-start [2017/10/24 22:35] – corrected link Coverity-Scan nerdoc
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 Nevertheless, despite having an [[http://www.sozialversicherung.at/portal27/portal/esvportal/content/contentWindow?contentid=10008.555263|official data format for exporting/importing]] patient data, this format is old, not very well standardized, and lacks completeness: You are likely to loose some of your patient data when switching your EMR to another provider.
 The currently available software companies have no benefit of improving this interoperability - they would loose customers. So they try to use a lock-in philosophy, trying to reduce the possibilities of their customers.
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 So I want to state a few advantages of OSS and why we prefer it:
-==== Transparency & Trust ====
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+===== Transparency & Trust =====
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 You don't know if patient data are kept within your database of a closed source software, or transmitted to another server. While it seems extremely unlikely that the software company illegally fetches data from you, you can neither prove nor deny it. You are fully dependent on the company's information.
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 **With OSS, every step of the software is transparent and can be proven to do what it says it does.**
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-==== Less software bugs ====
+===== Less software bugs =====
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 OSS has better software quality. Not always. But being open for everyone, more people are looking critically at the code. Badly written code can not be hidden as easily as in closed, proprietary software.
-Just imagine: **You would *not* try to make typography errors on your official visible home page, would you?** (But you tend to write sloppily in your internal notes, right?) [[http://softwareintegrity.coverity.com/rs/coverity/images/2013-Coverity-Scan-Report.pdf|Coverity Scan: OSS has better code quality]])
+{{:global:documents:2013-coverity-scan-report.pdf|Coverity Scan 2013: OSS has better code quality}}
-==== Security ====
+**You would //not// try to make typography errors on your official visible home page, would you?** But you tend to write sloppily in your internal notes, right? Same with software, done by companies.
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+===== Security =====
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 A common misconception is that OSS is less secure because "anyone can read the code and hack into the system, because he sees the vulnerabilities". This is only partly true.
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 The principle "*security through obscurity*" is commonly known as a bad practice to make a software secure. Therare plenty of demonstrations and examples in the history where "obscurity" failed. So Security could better be achieved using Open Source software.
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-==== Freedom of Choice ====
+===== Freedom of Choice =====
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 Be honest: you don't have much choice with proprietary software. If you want a certain feature implemented in your current EMR software, you can ask the company and hope they'll do it. If you want to switch the software company because of bad support, you loose some patient data when switching because the company didn't implement sufficient data export.
 **With OSS, you have more options**. While it does *not* mean that you have to be a programmer to have your ideas implemented, you can pay any programmer to implement a certain feature for you. Or keep the software, and go for another support company.
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 ===== We believe in Free Software =====
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 Software should not only be Open Source, it should also be **free** as in **freedom**. We think that free OSS offers the possibility that many small companies can take MedUX and build a support network for doctors - each company trying to make the software better, but having one standard base to build upon.
-So we encourage you to [[https://gitlab.com/nerdocs/medux/forks/new|fork MedUX]], improve it, and give your improvements back, to make it even better.
+So we encourage you to [[en:dev:get-involved|get involved into MedUX]] in any way you could think of, [[https://gitlab.com/nerdocs/medux/forks/new|fork MedUX (yet not available)]], improve it, and give your improvements back, to make it even better.