On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 06:24 am, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > The rest have either had public or commercial (enterprise) funding, > > yes? And though drug ref may not be "funded" (I am not sure), it has > > had help from OSCAR (and possibly other agencies) which is/are funded. > > Funding isn't sufficient. There must also be people to fund. > > > At this point I am really envying Wikipedia's help by Google if that > > goes through. GnuMed surely will need more help to be successful... I > > worry that if it is only/mainly Karsten, Ian, Carlos with bits of > > Hilmar, Horst, Andreas then by the time a prototype is workable > > (three to five years) the landscape may have changed dramatically. No > > doubt in my mind that GnuMed has *got* to be funded, if not directly, > > then indirectly (as I hope my pilot can help do if only in a small > > way, like a packet of crackers before a meal :-)). > > > > Have we real disagreement on the point?
Yeah, nice to see my name is not included. The main reason a prototype isn't running is that no-one will agree on someone to take control, direct the program, decided on a gui, and start making it work. 6 Months would kill it if the programming resources were correctly aimed. Regards Richard > > No we don't. (I don't disagree, that is.) > > Karsten _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
