CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Horrified to hear that NHS England is ignorantly closing their #OpenSource repositories "for security reasons".

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 (shkspr.mobi)

#UKPol

The unconference and lightning talk boards are filling up at #OggCamp today

The top appeals court of the European Union has once again found that standards referenced from safety law must be made "freely accessible under a system of access which is general, effective, without charge and non-discriminatory."

I assume CEN/CENELEC and the national standards bodies it works with are urgently seeking a new business model.

https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2026-04/cp260060en.pdf

https://infocuria.curia.europa.eu/tabs/jurisprudence?sort=DOC_DATE-DESC&searchTerm=%22C-155%2F24%22&publishedId=C-155%2F24

#Standards #Copyright

The FSF comes out against OnlyOffice abuse of the AGPL

You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

(www.fsf.org)

#OpenSource #Licensing

@richlv
Sounds likely doesn't it.

@tachan @libreoffice

@tachan I am chatting with them - I get the same result but not everyone does and neither of us can work out why. If you remove the PDF suffix is it actually an ODS?
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