Hi, On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:17:35PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > I have had inquiries by interested German doctors on how they > can "obtain" a version of, say, GNUMed to try out on their > machines at home. To date I have had to tell them: "Go grab > the source." Since my mother (who is a Doctor herself) has an office here (Germany), I noticed, that there might be legal and unfortunately financial problems concerning the Drug Database. Drug Databases are AFAIK covered by the german law, which says, that a Doctor needs to update them and this means, that this doctor has contracts with a company, which delivers them (Am I wrong?). Maybe you wonder now, what this stuff has to do with debian-med. I think, that this fact results in having the need of Companies, which ship debian-med coming with Support contracts. As long as there won't be companies doing this, most of Debian-Med's success will propably be in Research and at Hospitals.
Igor -- Igor Gilitschenski [EMAIL PROTECTED] RUS-CERT Universitaet Stuttgart Tel:+49 711 685-5973 Allmandring 30a, 70550 Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/
