Advice for an Open Source Development Grant?

IgD asks: "My colleagues and I are developing an open source medical records system. A senior supervisor approached us and let us know a third party is offering a decent amount of money in the form of a grant for any legitimate medical research project. We were all but promised the money if we could come up with a proposal. Has anyone in the Slashdot community received a grant for open source software development? Are there any good examples of such a grant available? How could one measure the results of open source development for publication?"

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Re:Open Source for Medical systems and the rationa

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I'm not convinved that open source development model has any real advantages over the established one. Honestly, I dont see a lot of innovation and creaivity coming from OSS developers. Beside a few high profile server apps and dev tools with a longtime Unix heritage its mostly K[windows app] or Gno[windows app]. Granted MS itself isnt very innovative but 3rd party windopws developers really shine. In every groupd from individual shareware developers to small dev houses to megacorps you can see examples of applications that have nor rivals in the OSS world.