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(DIR) Post #B5yx8cIO3mM7H00hVo by fsfe@mastodon.social
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🚨 NHS England should not hide public code behind closed doors England’s National Health Service (#NHS England) is preparing to make most of its public source code repositories private by default, according to recent reports. 🫣 The reported internal guidance would require public repositories to be made private unless an explicit exception is approved.Find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260504-01.en.html#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware
(DIR) Post #B5zDk2t1kylhj01AcC by webmink@meshed.cloud
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@fsfe I believe Terence Eden's blog from last Friday is revelant here too: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/RT: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=70760
(DIR) Post #B5zezSu40UeJWK50LI by tasket@infosec.exchange
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@fsfe Advocates don't know how to defend open source anymore. They are supposed to stress that security comes from properly engineered open protocols & formats. If people don't believe in that then reaching for code secrecy is a logical reaction to threats.