FDA: Software Failure Behind 24% of Last Year's Medical Device Recalls

Well, yes. If you modify the product, then it's on you. However, having the code be open source means:

It can be inspected
It can be verified
Patches can be written (and then submitted to the manufacturer)

The idea is not that the little IT captain at your local hospital is going to rewrite the MRI. It's that he's going to run into an issue, pull up the source code, write up a patch, submit it to the manufacturer, then the manufacturer is going to throw it out, force their engineers to write it again, ru

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