I have struggled for several years(albeit part time and intermittently)
to get to the point where I could contribute to a significant coding
project. Still struggling with wxWidgets to write a small demo app - I
regard myself as reasonably able when it comes to
maths/electronics/assembly level coding, but I seem to be mired in
various interacting errors and not making much progress.
(Oh well maybe the brain is getting old)
Still there does seem to be a lot of interest for such a project.
It would be "subversive" - in the sense that it will be free to users
and the entity would make money out of installation and support. It
would undermine the current market players.
I think there is a lot of potential gain for somemone in the gap between
M$/proprietary licensing and hardware and a free Linux based system
I would envisage a capable system with accounting/appointments/medical
software
Fair enough about getting buyin from larger groups - but if you are not
trying to make money, what does it matter?
A free capable system will surely get traction once a demo site is
available.
R
Les Ferguson wrote:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john hilton
I still can't work out why any of the "from the ground up"
medical software major redesigns didn't consider a linux
development. If it is well known that Australian GPs are shy
of paying for things, the savings on the OS, Office,
Database, Antivirus, would surely be an enticement to paying
th medical software developers proportionally more for their product.
jh
I wonder that myself a lot. With the likes of WXWidgets it should be
relatively painless to produce C++ core modules and/or WXPython modules
that are easily distributable to multiple platforms.
Open source gaming is a prime example of this, with a lot of
Windows-only 'shareware', compared to a lot of open source games that
were developed on or for Linux but also have a Windows build released,
just cos they can.
I know if I was still writing software (as opposed to writing about
writing it) I would go for WXPython myself; I am not convinced that the
web-server/web-browser based model is necessarily the best, when a more
powerful user-interface can be developed in a cross-platform toolset,
and can also make use of web-service architectures when needed.
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