On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Jon Patrick wrote:
> I think this view does not take account of the mechanism for providing
> SCT nor the need to support it in further development.
> Someone has to pay to maintain it and develop it to a useful point. In
> OZ the government has decided to absorb that cost and provide it free to
> vendors and users. SCT has a potential to make a difference. If
> physicians take Horst's position it will not advance and its potential
> will be lost - that will truly make it a waste of money.
Oh no.
What you have now is 10 of the richest and most developed countries on this
planet putting heaps of money into *preventing* other people from accessing
the coding system.
Development costs, maintenance costs - of course. Real money. But you will
find that the costs of preventing others form accessing it ("administration")
will probably at least equal the costs of development and maintenance - come
on, how many people do you need (in a paid position) to maintain a
vocabulary???
Now, if these countries had any common sense they would simply commit the
money it takes to pay the developers and maintainers and their
infrastructure - crumble of a peanut in the context of their budgets.
Tadaaaaa - all of a sudden the system would have a chance of becoming a
GLOBAL enabler of health communication and expert systems literally over
night. Leading to others wanting to join the club because they want influence
and control, and willing to pay for the privilege. It does not take more than
a handful of functional synapses to see that.
But no, bureaucrats are so small minded that they can't see past their
blinding fear somebody might benefit from something they haven't paid for, so
they rather destroy it before anybody else could make use of it. Morons.
Horst
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