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From: julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Questions
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Date: 4 Aug 89 22:56:12 GMT
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In article <115@isgtec.UUCP> robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne) writes:
>     Where would hospitals (society) find 100+ man 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?

I doubt that you could find volunteer help for a project of that
size, but an organization such as the American Medical
Association might be able to provide funds for one.  Once the
source is available to hospitals, consulting companies could be
hired to do custom work on the system if the hospital wanted.

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