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I'm very familiar with GNU, which is why I expect a website that looks like this

https://gcc.gnu.org/

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html

Reading in the other comments how the screenshots indicate this is a repackaging of "Tryton", a fork of OpenERP, it leads me to wonder if these people are just co-opting the GNU name to advance tired meatspace politics (ala libreboot).

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I'm sorry but you are missing a huge part of what GNU is about. It is explicitly about "meatspace politics" and the philosophies of Richard Stallman. Explicitly you seem to be confusing "open source software" with "free software":

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.... https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.htm...

even more reading: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

I'm sorry but you are missing a huge part of what GNU is about.

No, I don't think I am. GNU supports building businesses on free software. That's why the GPL does not say "free for noncommercial use only" like many other licenses. It's meant to be sustainable.

Using iconography that says "businesses are bad, uprisings in the street are good" is counter to the GNU mission.

Perhaps it is because GNU Health doesn't really take the power back. It appears to entrench doctors rather than empowering individuals, which seems to be the opposite of what GNU typically does.

Here is an actual take the power back health site aimed at individuals: http://miceats.blogspot.com/

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