"Smith, Todd" wrote:
> However I am not
> sure that I followed your last post clearly. :) What issue are you
> referring to? My developers working on code that gets "closed" by a
> commercial company or commercial companies "hijacking" code?
I have been too busy designing ballots for Palm Beach County to really
make much sense. Or is it the other way around? Anyway, I meant the
latter. I have already had stuff hijacked (which doesn't mean that it
was high quality stuff, just that the hijackers are ravenous), and I
really could never ask someone to write code that would be stolen the
next day. Open sorcerers, and I guess the VISTA community in
particular, must address this issue...which you are doing. I am just
adding my voice that the whole trick is to get highly talented,
motivated people to create medical software in an open source
environment. In contrast to Linux, I believe that these highly
talented, motivated people will not have a "day job". I return to my
questions from months ago about a business plan for medical open
source. If this list could do nothing except create a bullet-proof,
generic business plan for medical open source, it would have done
enormous good.
John
