VA can't keep track of it's software licenses
K.S. Bhaskar
Alvin Marcelo
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Nancy Anthracite
At least for the licenses for Iris for VistA, it would end that issue if they went FOSS.
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Nancy Anthracite
On Tuesday, April 14, 2026 7:35:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time 'Alvin Marcelo' via Hardhats wrote:
> Thanks for sharing KS -- This is very informative -
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> But even with the shift to FOSS, won't the VA still be hard-pressed to
> maintain its software bill of materials?
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> Are there policies and frameworks (I guess cybersecurity?) that will compel
> practitioners to maintain a registry/SBOM?
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> You cannot protect what you do not know -
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> alvin
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> On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 4:09 AM K.S. Bhaskar <ksbh...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > https://docs.house.gov/meetings/VR/VR08/20260325/119102/HHRG-119-VR08-20260325-SD002.pdf
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> > One more reason to go open source!
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> > Regards
> > - Bhaskar
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