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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 james kilty wrote: > 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 To add to the above, at a guess making these projects OSS would also allow such projects to be expanded and adapted to clients changing needs. Security would also be better as bugs can be found quickly and patched. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 9.10 is out : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details The December meeting of the DCLUG will now take place on the SECOND Saturday in December. This is December 12th 2009. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAksc5OgACgkQaggq1k2FJq3xwQCfavZjWRpLIfd9Gu5V3B5Kbxrj 4BEAnjTzila83kgiAB1y0YDAPAQ2UZOE =nRfq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html