On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Peter MacIsaac wrote: > There has to be some > encouragement to get the other countries on board. > > So whats the barrier.
You just stated the barrier Reality check: Q: what order of magnitude of funding is necessary to keep SNOMED-CT fresh and alive? A: not much more than the US college of pathologists managed to raise all by themselves In the context of several big economies joining the team, the costs within the national budgets are peanuts - whetherjust ten of them pay, or 100 makes virtually no difference In the context of some nations chosing NOT to participate because of this licensing nonsense, and the early implementers NOT getting a universally accepted health language - the costs are huge. Before we run into cul de sacs of stupidity, it always pays off to step back and reflect what it is we want to achieve, what means we have to achieve this, and what we still need in order to make it reality. What we have now is a pithy handful of bureaucrats with wannabe merchant souls aspiring to secure themselves a post in yet another bureaucratic monstrosity with no other purpose than administering an obscenity called "Intellectual Property" (in real world language a device with a single use of preventing the general public from getting benefits) Why haven't the world's second and third strongest economies not joined up yet? Why has not a single one of the third world countries joined up yet? Ah, I see, it will require well fed bureaucrats travelling around the world in business class sipping champagne to convince those others to join the club - where probably more than half of the club fees will go into paying said bureaucrats to have a good life. (Nothing against anybody having a good life - it just should not be built solely on parasitism) Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
