Re: [Gnumed-devel] gnumed ideas 0.1 and post-0.1

[Karsten Hilbert]

> The rest have either had public or commercial (enterprise) funding, 
> yes? And though drug ref may not be "funded" (I am not sure), it has 
> had help from OSCAR (and possibly other agencies) which is/are funded.
Funding isn't sufficient. There must also be people to fund.

> At this point I am really envying Wikipedia's help by Google if that 
> goes through. GnuMed surely will need more help to be successful... I 
> worry that if it is only/mainly Karsten, Ian, Carlos with bits of 
> Hilmar, Horst, Andreas then by the time a prototype is workable 
> (three to five years) the landscape may have changed dramatically. No 
> doubt in my mind that GnuMed has *got* to be funded, if not directly, 
> then indirectly (as I hope my pilot can help do if only in a small 
> way, like a packet of crackers before a meal :-)).
> 
> Have we real disagreement on the point?
No we don't. (I don't disagree, that is.)

Karsten
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