Software Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default Negative reactions are mounting against the UK National Health Service's plan to back away from open source – and you can add your voice. On Monday, The Register reported that the management at the NHS told its tech leadership to wall off the organization's FOSS repositories due to concerns about new LLM bug-hunting tools finding security vulnerabilities. If you will pardon a Douglas Adams quotation, this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. One of the first reactions that The Reg FOSS desk received was from the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), which sent it to us both by email and direct message. The FSFE says NHS England should not hide public code behind closed doors, and we feel that it has a good point. If you agree, there's an open letter to which you can attach your name.…