Horst Herb wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Ian Cheong wrote: >> See: >> http://www.ihtsdo.org/ > > Sadly, this has not changed the silly counterproductive status quo: > http://www.ihtsdo.org/about-us/faq/#c528 > > So, for the time being, I could not care less.
I agree that this is unfortunate, although IHTSDO says it will offer heavily discounted and/or free licenses to poorer countries. ideally WHO or the World bank or someone ought to step in and offer to pay for a global license for all developing and transitional countries. However, for Australia, we alreday have a perpetual, free license that anyone can use, although NEHTA's administration of this license is suboptimal (you have to register and jump through unnecessary bureacratic hoops, but after doing that SNOMED CT is freely available and you can use it freely in your applications etc). Not as good as a true open-source terminology, but better than nothing, and frankly, better than LOINC which although free and open source, doesn't really cut the nustard, I'm afraid (having used both LOINC and SNOMED CT for real-world projects (public health communicable disease notification coding)). Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
