Hi all, We're a small university-based research group with a FOSS EHR (for govt health facilities).
Are there sites/resources for business models on how such FOSS apps can prosper (economically), where the principles of FOSS are respected but where the 'investments' of the original team are also taken into consideration? alvin (manila) On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 5:28 AM, fred trotter <fred.trot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I was speaking to patent-holders generally, and not you personally. The > negotiations we have had together are the template for how a patent-holder > and a community might potentially work together. Should not have used 'you' > in this context. Sorry. > > -FT > > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Stephen Beller > <sbel...@nhds.com<sbeller%40nhds.com>> > wrote: > > > Although it's easy to resent your implication of duplicity (trickery), I > do > > understand your practical, though rigid, position. > > Thanks, > > Steve > > > > --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com <openhealth%40yahoogroups.com>, fred > trotter <fred.trot...@...> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Stephen Beller <sbel...@...> wrote: > > > > > > > Fred, > > > > > > > > This is encouraging and I wish you great success! > > > > > > > > Two questions: > > > > > > > > 1. How do you define "hybrid vendors" and distinguish them from FOSS > > > > vendors? > > > > > > > > > Anyone who makes money by supporting FOSS AND by selling proprietary > > health > > > software. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2. What roll, if any, do you see for companies having patented > > > > methodologies? > > > > > > > > > That is largely uncharted territory, but in general I would like to > treat > > > that in a similar fashion to hybrid vendors. They will be included and > > > welcomed, while their slight bias against our core values will be > > explicitly > > > labelled. > > > > > > In my experience the FOSS community does not like to treated > > condescendingly > > > or tricked. If a vendor disagrees with some of our values, but still > > wants > > > to work with us in those areas that they agree with us, we should make > > that > > > fall over easy for them to do. I would think the same would hold true > to > > > patents. Do not try to trick us into implementing something that you > are > > > going to later try and charge us for, use standard FOSS patent > licensing > > > techniques and we should be just fine. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Steve Beller > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Fred Trotter > > > http://www.fredtrotter.com > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > -- > Fred Trotter > http://www.fredtrotter.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- Alvin B. Marcelo, MD (www.alvinmarcelo.com) Director, UP Manila - National Telehealth Center Director for Southeast Asia, International Open Source Network Associate Professor of Surgery (Trauma), University of the Philippines Manila GPG: 0x77B200CA Check out PANACeA: http://www.panacea-ehealth.net Join IOSN ASEAN+3 discussion: http://lists.iosnasean.net/listinfo.cgi/iosn-asean3-discuss-iosnasean.net Join IMIA WG on Health Informatics for Development: http://lists.iosnasean.net/listinfo.cgi/imia-wg-hi4dev-iosnasean.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
