Idea 4, which is much like Idea 3. ========================================= Make Open Source viable for the "medical industry." There are numerous problems

Idea 4, which is much like Idea 3. ========================================= Make Open Source viable for the "medical industry." There are numerous problems with deploying an opensource application environment when it is involved in the care process. Lawyers have made this a legal quagmire to validate software installs, but it can be done, just not for small startups. By validating linux installs on machines via a process you will lower the barrier to entry for using technology in the medical industry and it should help improve care and reduce cost over all. Medical companies will pay large dollars at first for this service (probably on order with what they pay for other software of its type). For example, Documenteum installs can run between $5,000,000 and $50,000,000, where IBM content manager is Cheap, it still will cost on average $500k+ and it needs to be installed on windows. By managing the documentation correctly, one could design and configure a set of 'validated' applications based on opensource technology. I know there is money in it, and I would have done it by now, except I am not a linux person. PS. if you do this well, you could probably get some support from change.gov.