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Re: [LUG] Government IT policy

 

2009/12/4 james kilty <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Is anyone willing to start this off? This would be a chance to summarise
> the ways you would solve the major issues in respect of IT in the UK and
> promote best practices for the present and future.


Medical software should be Open Source.
There is no reason for the gov not to commission the writing of it,
for money, but the licence should be GPL or similar to ensure that if
a project collapses the software remains available and progress made
is not discarded.


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