RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@slowe/116289390757597782

I don't think UKGov should be allowed to require commercial software for the submission of data and information to government.

They should be required to use open standards and allow open source tools. Or provide one.

@NatalyaD It's all REST and OAuth. All the endpoints, arguments and return values are published. You do have to supply mandated 'anti-fraud' headers and pass validation before you can go live. I just wrote it all in PHP