Hi Darius,
Thanks for coming to our forums!
I believe this is answered already in the FAQ
Q: What is happening with OpenMRS and OpenEMR?
As mentioned in our announcement, we’re building a new lineup of software solutions for healthcare. Our earliest community members have deep experience in the field from their work on the OpenEMR & OpenMRS projects, and we’ll be building upon many things those projects have released under open source licenses over the years. We anticipate both projects will continue to move forward with their own plans, and we’ll also do our best to offer our work back upstream to those projects as bug fixes and other changes, as may be appropriate. We have extended public invitations to those still contributing to both OpenMRS & OpenEMR to collaborate with us on LibreHealth initiatives, and look forward to the opportunity to work alongside them in the future.
This is pretty clear and I don’t think we need to answer further. However (and I do not speak for everyone on the Steering Committee), that fundamentally — we don’t agree with how OpenMRS is being run as a project. That is why I believe we forked. The lack of transparency and accountability has been already publicly addressed and I can freely probably list that as two of the reasons without hesitation, but it’s far from the only one in my opinion.
@sunbiz may have more to say, however I believe that forking and leaving toolkit as it is, is the way to go. As the FAQ said, we will contribute back upstream when approriate.