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[LUG] NHS IT

 

Hi,

( Says he as he delurks )

Here is a snip of some email I have been having with an NHS
colleauge here in Cornwall.  ANy thoughts?  The link in question
is

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/28/egu_oss_policy_v2/

,------[ I said ::  ]
| I took the government stance to be that projects de novo publicly
| funded had to be licenced in such a way that control of the
| source would be available to the commissioners of that software
| (not necessarily in a true GPL fashion per se ).  ie the NHS
| (/users where necessary) would be able to see the source of the
| software that it had purchased / commissioned.  Do we (as in the
| NHS) therefore have a right to see how the thing works underneath?
`------


,------[ reply ::  ]
| Even documents describing the product are branded "Commercial in
| confidence"
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