Les Ferguson wrote: > ... >> In fact, what you need to do is go to the SAI Global (ASX >> symbol SAI, current share price $3.09) web site (you just >> have to know that, there are no clues) and click on health >> informatics in the list at the lower right and then click on >> AS 4700.6-2004/Amdt 1-2005 you'll see an icon labelled "free >> PDF". You can click on that and you'll be asked to register >> with SAI Global and give them details you'd rather not have >> to give them, and then you are permitted the honour of being >> allowed to download the PDF for free. >> >> Happy reading! >> >> Tim C > > In fact, part of the registration and messing about is preparing your > own personalized copy of the pdf, with each page watermarked with... > > "Licensed to Mr Les Ferguson on 20 Jul 2005. Personal use licence only. > Storage, distribution or use on network prohibited." > > So that you will remember never to share this document with illegitimate > 3rd parties. > Seems a bit silly to me, but apparently I am not allowed to show anybody > else this standard.
Hmmm, I'd better remind Mickey Mouse not to share his copy of AS 4700.6 with me - you're right, that's what the watermark says - , and not to store it on the file server. Let's hope the announced NeHTA reforms to the health informatics standards process will rid us of all this commercial nonsense surrounding what need to be public documents which can be shared and copied and distributed without constraint or having to jump through hoops. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
