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You know, this kind of reminds me of that seen from Goodfellas where Ray Liotota's character is explaining about protection rackets. The quote goes something l
by escapologybb 9y ago
You know, this kind of reminds me of that seen from Goodfellas where Ray Liotota's character is explaining about protection rackets. The quote goes something like "Having a bad day, fk you pay me. Your loved one is sick, fk you pay me. Business going badly, fk you pay me."
And that's exactly how I feel about all of these proprietary device providers that have all these massive contract with the NHS. It really should be "Want this massive NHS contract, fk you, support our OS"
I'm quadriplegic and rely on the NHS for my life, literally for my life and this kind of shit scares the absolute crap out of me. Yes it will be difficult, yes there are challenges but we are one of the richest countries on earth and we invented the Sinclair C5 for goodness sake. This is not beyond us.
Sorry, this hack and finding out about all those XP machines has terrified and angered me beyond all reason.
Edited to Add: Just to be clear, I agree with the OP!
- adrianN 9y agoWhat do you do about legacy software? Porting all the crap they're currently using to a new operating system isn't free.
- escapologybb 9y agoYeah, and I mean this without a drop of sarcasm or joking. That's where being one of the richest countries on earth comes in. We should just pay up.
- dpwm 9y agoAnd this could provide well-paid, satisfying jobs and apprenticeships in the UK resulting in systems that don't have to be rewritten in under a decade because a monopolist decided to break compatibility.
- rbanffy 9y ago> We should just pay up. I'd say it'd be a very solid investment. If it's made open-source and some attention is dedicated to build a community and a vendor ecosystem around it, it'll save the NHS and many other similar organizations everywhere a huge amount of money.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoLegacy sortware could be isolated, for instance in a VM. Also there is ReactOS which is an open source older windows which might be useful for running old windows software on a relatively secure OS.