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Are we crazy then? Why does this work? Here are a couple of reasons: | Are we crazy then? Why does this work? Here are a couple of reasons: | ||
- | * We think we actually have a fairness component built into [[https://www.pathomation.com/lic|our licensing model]]: in a abstract way, we can argue that a system that is used for one day a year by 365 users, equates to a single user license using the system once a day for a whole year. | + | * We think we actually have a fairness component built into [[https://www.pathomation.com/lic|our licensing model]]: in an abstract way, we can argue that a system that is used for one day a year by 365 users, equates to a single user license using the system once a day for a whole year. |
* For college and other educational use cases, we actually reduce the burden on instructors, as they don't have to track individual users (not to mention that they doni't have to help students out with lost password issues). | * For college and other educational use cases, we actually reduce the burden on instructors, as they don't have to track individual users (not to mention that they doni't have to help students out with lost password issues). | ||
* The licensing model doesn't apply to professional (or even clinical) users, where regulation and legislation typically requires for actions of individual users to be tracked. | * The licensing model doesn't apply to professional (or even clinical) users, where regulation and legislation typically requires for actions of individual users to be tracked. | ||
* Even apart from legal issues, a hospital has no use for information that at the end of the month only shows that "pathology_user" looked at a bunch of slides; they're want to see that "Dr. A" evaluated "patient X" and "Dr. B" evaluated "patient Y". They //also// (and particularly!) want to see that "Dr. A" and "Dr. B" both looked at the slides of "patient Z", disagreed, and that is was "Dr. C" that eventually ruled over the eventual diagnosis. | * Even apart from legal issues, a hospital has no use for information that at the end of the month only shows that "pathology_user" looked at a bunch of slides; they're want to see that "Dr. A" evaluated "patient X" and "Dr. B" evaluated "patient Y". They //also// (and particularly!) want to see that "Dr. A" and "Dr. B" both looked at the slides of "patient Z", disagreed, and that is was "Dr. C" that eventually ruled over the eventual diagnosis. | ||