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by gitaarik 956 days ago
Updating the software should be done by qualified medical software engineers. Just like you wouldn't let a random untrained family member do surgery on you or prescribe you any drug. The free software aspect would still benefit the community, and people won't be on the fate of 1 company. If the company stops supporting the software, you could go to a medical software service company that has in-house experts on helping users with deprecated medical devices. That would at least be possible with free software, not with proprietary.