Horst Herb wrote: > On Monday 25 September 2006 18:34, Tim Churches wrote: >> Although OSCAR is itself another example of a working open source EMR >> developed by paid, professional developers (in an academic setting, >> what's more). > > David Chan developed the first version entirely without funding if I remember > right (I might be mixing things up). But he got funding for professional > programmers once he had something to show
I thought he wrote the first version himself using Advanced Revelation (a marvellous but now sadly defunct PICK-derivative for MS-DOS), and then had it professionally re-written for the Web. > I lived and worked with them for a week - none of them is in for it just for > the money. All his professional programmers (at least the ones I had the > pleasure to meet) are idealists who work for a lot less than they are worth. Sure, but nor are they volunteers working in their spare time - that was my point. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
