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Re:Say No to Palantir in the NHS by LightBug1 on Sunday December 28, 2025 @10:05AM (#46411568)
Yes. I do feel similarly.

Choice would be a fine thing ... I understand there is a move in some European countries towards more open source. How successful that'll be is debatable, but at least they're trying ffs.

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Re:Say No to Palantir in the NHS by crimsoneer on Sunday December 28, 2025 @10:15AM (#46411647)
But they've been trying for fourty years and not got very far. You can argue government should all be running Linux all you want, but if you want to deliver services, sometimes it's okay to just buy something off the shelf that works.
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Re:Say No to Palantir in the NHS by lametti on Sunday December 28, 2025 @10:27AM (#46411720)
The irony of course being that the "off-the-shelf" something in fact needs to be adapted to an ever-shifting set of requirements, and then does not "work".
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