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> Where would hospitals (society) find 100+ man [sic] months of *volunteer*
> FSF type of help to create, support, maintain such a software project?
> How does this kind of project fit into the FSF world view?

What percentage of these 100+ person-months would you estimate has been
 dedicated to retracing others' steps?  Chances are, like most software
  projects, yours has spent a lot of time and money reinventing wheels,
   or buying them.

And let's not forget how exciting it is to reinvent wheels, or how much
 society advances while wheels are being invented.

The way I see it, the more software we make free, the fewer resources we
 have to waste on duplication of efforts.  And that frees us up to work
  on the Next Big Thing.  And the next, and the next, and the next . . .
   <_Jym_>