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When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos's £136m contract with NHS England

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Re: What is FREE?

There is a VERY good reason that NHS England didn't fall foul of Wannacry or indeed that it has NEVER had a malware outbreak.

Pardon me but, what? Someone has a very short memory...

https://www.theregister.com/2017/05/13/wannacrypt_ransomware_worm/

The software nasty has today ransacked the UK's national healthcare service, forcing hospitals to shut down to non-emergency patients;.... We're told 16 NHS health trusts in the UK were taken out by the malware.

https://www.theregister.com/2018/06/28/nhs_downtime_troubles/

These attacks included the infamous WannaCry ransomware outbreak in May 2017, while others fell victim to the Locky and Zepto malware, the most severe of which knocked systems offline for two weeks.

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