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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. From the POV of maintainability and security OSS makes a lot of sense. For one thing it's inherently portable between platforms, even proprietary platforms. > 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. This would also mean that a project could easily be taken away from a supplier. Not good news for the likes of C(r)apita, even if there's enough money involved to keep wining and dining ministers and senior civil servants.
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