An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open
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- #Public Funding
- #NHS Policy
- #Open Source
- The open letter opposes NHS England's decision to conceal source code from public repositories.
- It argues that publicly funded code should be open, aligning with UK Government Design Principles and NHS Service Standard.
- Open-source code demands higher quality, vulnerability management, and risk mitigation, which strengthens security like an immune system.
- Closed source avoids this work, relying on obscurity that offers little protection against motivated attackers.