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🆕 blog! “NHS Goes To War Against Open Source”

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories.

Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so…

NHS Goes To War Against Open Source

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…

Terence Eden’s Blog

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Terence Eden 3d ago

Here's the response to my #FoI request
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/information_relating_to_guidance_2?nocache=incoming-3429727#incoming-3429727

There are no minutes of any meeting where this new anti-open-source guidance was discussed. Lends credence to the suggestion that a non-technical manager made this up on the hoof.

All other requests denied on security grounds.
#NHS #OpenSource

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Greem (Graeme. Not Graham!)

@Edent that sounds very much like grounds for an appeal to me, given that prior to the instruction those repositories were open and no security issues had happened as a result.

Unless of course they had, in which case why don't we know that?

They've tied themselves in a knot there.