All I can tell you is that FOSS deployment does not work that way.
The big question then is GP/specialist desktop software in Australia amenable to the way FOSS deployment normally works? I would contend that from what I have seen of the GP world in the last few years, it is the _least_ amenable industry to FOSS deployed software. Other then a very small subset (who incidentally I imagine are all subscribed to this list), GP's have had to be dragged kicking and screaming to use computers in the first place - to think that they are going to be going to source forge and downloading nightly builds of their clinical software is a bit far fetched. And where as in other industries, commercial companies could foster the open source project and work off support contracts - lo and behold, it turns out that GP's don't like paying any money for support either. Don't get me wrong - I'd love to see good free opensource clinical system. I just don't think you'll get anything like that with $50000 in seed funding - and even if you get it up and running it would require a lot of work to get GP's to actually use it. As far as Argus and open source - it does seem to be a bit 'kind of pregant'.. if you need a revenue stream to pay for programmers and support staff then stuff open source. Run it as a full commercial product. However, if for whatever reason you want to open source it, it needs to be done properly like Horst says - lingo, infrastructure - the works.. Andrew _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
