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BMJ: Medical Software’s Free Future

Open source developments fit better with the intellectual traditions of medicine says the British Medical Journal BMJ, and doctors should start to demand the approach from their software suppliers. The article is an encouraging endorsement of the open source approach from an influential journal. As well as recognising the usual plus points of enhanced
reliability and security, the article points out the substantial potential to reduce the transaction costs in the commissioning of systems.