[med-svn] r5560 - trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg

[Steffen Möller]

Author: moeller
Date: 2010-12-09 14:10:52 +0000 (Thu, 09 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5560

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   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
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--- trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-09 13:53:15 UTC (rev 5559)
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 \subsection{Status of Free Software in health care}
 
-Common programs like a web server, or a mail user agent are installed
-on most computers and have a very large user base.  Knowing this, many
-gifted programmers feel obliged for this kind of Free Software - they
-just need it for themselves and thus feel motivated to spend their time
-on it.
+More common programs like a web server, or a mail user agent are installed
+manigfold and have a very large user base. This increases the chance to
+attract gifted programmers have an almost intiutive spontaneous
+understanding on the structure of the control flow of the program
+(by understanding the problem domain extremely well) and can map
+this to the source code (since they would have solve the problem
+in a similar way). Any change they just need for themselves they
+could implement without too much of a personal investment, and for
+lager challenges there may be many different driving forces coming
+together.
 
-The fact that a piece of software is needed for ones own work is often
+The fact that a piece of software is needed for one's own work is often
 the basic motivation to write Free Software.  Biological software is
-often developed by scientists because they are the only
-persons who have the needed insight in a particular topic.  Many authors of
-such software realised the profit they might gain from sharing their
-code and thus the field of biology is really well covered by Free
+frequently developed by scientists because they are the only
+person with insight in a particular topic and the development is
+inseparable from their research.  Many authors of
+such software realised the gains in prestige, feedback and the faster
+development of scientific progress that is expected from sharing their
+code and thus the field of computational biology is really well covered by Free
 Software.
 
 Another quite well equipped part of \DebianMed is medical imaging.