The small team of volunteers behind the NHoS project (formerly NHSBuntu) are giving up. They wanted to offer an alternative to the current NHS smartcard implementation system, currently running on Windows, using open-source software. First they rebranded from “NHSBuntu” to “NHoS” (along with “overhauling the previous tooling and branding”), which they thought would address trademark concents from the NHS. But now it seems even this name is considered unacceptable. One of the developers, Marcus Baw, ... said openhealthhub had numerous conversations that had led to "several cancelled-at-the-last minute meetings" with NHS England (NHSE) CIO Will Smart and Paul Rice, head of technology strategy in the Digital Health team. Baw alleged the pair "(unbeknown to us) were also duplicitously negotiating with Microsoft about a new NHS Enterprise Wide Agreement". He added: "In fact I now strongly suspect that the reason we were getting any engagement at all at these levels was in order to strength NHSE negotiating position with Microsoft, by being able to say to M$ 'There is a competitor, we are meeting with them next week'." <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/18/nhs_thanks_for_all_the_free_work_linux_nerds_now_face_our_trademark_cops/>