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Re:“I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body” by abraae on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:49PM (#12252258)
The need to avoid Therac-25 [1] type bugs in the proprietary code that are fatal to the patient. Open source in conjunction with a bug bounty would make me far more confident than simply trusting that some large corporate has got their shit wired tight when history throws up so many counter-examples.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

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