History
The FreeMED project was officially started in 1999 by Jeffrey Buchbinder of Willimantic, Connecticut, United States. Since then, it has become an international effort, with thousands of downloads and several translations.
FreeMED is a direct descendent of AMOS, a Pascal/DBase program which was created in 1983 before the widespread use of relational databases and object oriented programming.
FreeMED is currently hosted by the FreeMED Software Foundation, with downloads hosted by Sourceforge.
It uses Subversion as a Concurrent versioning system, which it has used since it was migrated from CVS in 2005.
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