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I don't buy the SFLC's reasoning. The problem being that how many people in the open source world are going to look at the code, and if they do how many of them have the experience, knowledge, and expertise to be able to troubleshoot code for medical devices? I don't think the code needs to be open as the company can open it if they want but I don't think they would get much support from the community. Also, since it is the medical industry and most are out to make obscene profits they wouldn't want to give up the code anyway for their competitors to view. An alternative solution would be to have a rigorous testing/debugging process. Something along the lines of six sigma for coding. I'm not a coder so I couldn't tell you if something like that already exists.
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