Common Misconceptions About REMITT

1. There's no documentation for REMITT.
   Visit the FreeMED Developer Wiki for more information/documentation.
2. Isn't REMITT just a fork of "FreeB"?
   REMITT is a separate product, which was developed independently of FreeB. The main developer of REMITT, Jeff, was also involved in the writing of the first version of FreeB, under contract. REMITT neither shares code nor concepts with FreeB, other than the concept of them both being separate billing servers.
3. REMITT is written primarily in Perl, and isn't that a bad thing?
   Aside from legions of Perl programmers disagreeing with this, is couldn't be further from the truth. The major extensibility of REMITT lies in its XSL transformation stylesheets. These are programming-language agnostic. Technically, REMITT could have been written in any of a number of languages, but Perl had the nice PDF rendering library at the time.
4. Why aren't you using templates in REMITT? Isn't the formatting system you're using difficult?
   No, it's not difficult to use at all. Template-based formatting systems have their own disadvantages, especially when it comes to what is done with the output. XSL transforms are simply marked-up XML stylesheets using XPath expressions. This is a W3C standard, and there are a ton of books at your local library on the subject.
5. Is REMITT slower than that other system?
   No. The XSL transforms are fast, and even rendering PDFs takes very little time. It is leagues faster than the last released iteration of its nearest competitor, and could be made even faster with more intense optimizations.
6. Is REMITT really free for me to use? People have been saying the license isn't free.
   Yes, REMITT is free to use for anyone, as long as you abide by the terms of the GPL. Previous versions of REMITT were licensed under he MPL license, which led to some confusion as to the freedom of the license.