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Re: [LUG] Government IT policy

 

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 09:39 +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> 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.
Thanks Adrian. Is anyone else willing to offer some words of wisdom. You
may not be a Lib Dem supporter, but all parties can have some influence
on policy making, whatever the Government.

James
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james kilty
http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk


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