I search some modells and ideas, how industry/hospitals can give back something if they use care2x. Not everyone is IBM.
I think about Consultants, Healthcare Providers etc.
Any Ideas. Donation Systems are mostly not accepted
It is not news anymore: Oracle said that they would help. IBM said that they would help. HP is giving it a thought...
Which do we need more?
I always said that it was a simple matter of showing them professionalism, and work well done.
I would not like to see hospitals to give back anything besides the code that they will be adding to solve their local problems.
Industry will not help us. Our license makes us uninteresting to them. If it where MPL or CPL I am sure that it would be easier.
Consultants, installers and the like are Care2x family members. As such they should not pay anything. At most they could help with the coding.
About Healthcare Providers: we have no Finance module for them, we have not finished the Administrative & Operational module yet. These are the thinks that they all care about. If you don't scratch their backs why would they help you?
Supranational authorities funding, like projects from the EU or South America & Caribe WHO projects, they are the surest and quickest way of shutting down an open source project... It is quite simply really. The developers just get a "public servant" attitude, creativity is killed
and the projects grow bigger in paperwork and fat, and smaller in clever ideas and sheer genius.
But if you need really useful ideas you could take a look at the wonderful report from Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency), called "Open Source in Developing Countries", that you may find at:
http://www.sida.se/content/1/c6/02/39/55/SIDA3460en_Open%20SourceWEB.pdf
Regards,
J. Antas
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