John Mackenzie wrote:
Horst, I think what the problem might be ...
Yes, Argus was started by some funding from the NT Division.
But the amount of work put into Argus has *greatly* exceeded
this initial seed funding.
So, now the good people at Argus are making the program
free to GPs and specialists. But they do need to recoup some
money for their past and continuing efforts which has NOT
been met by the past seed funding. To do this, Argus is not
making the program free to corporate pathology or radiology
practices.
John/Horst/List,
What has been discussed on the list before, and reiterated by Ross is
that the IP for Argus basically belongs to the Commonwealth.
Attending the Argus Forum in May 2004 was an illuminating experience.
Ross and his team are doing something no one has done before, which is
to tread a middle-ground in order to, on the one hand, prevent the
project ending up in a Canberra filing cabinet, and on the other, to
compete in a market where it can't be a fully commercial product.
Nor, I suspect, that fully 'giving away' the IP to Argus could be done
without raising bureaucratic ire, with the risk that it would lead to it
being shut-down by government, even now. It seems to me they are
treading a very cautious path, that no-doubt frustrates Horst and
others, but I remember Ross' words very well.
They have to serve a number of masters to keep the project going, and I
don't believe that anyone except their commercial rivals would think
that it's demise would be a good thing.
The reports today of adoption in some Division areas is good news.
Greg
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