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Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators by burfog on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:58PM (#22722159)
Agreement to cancel could be made conditional upon publishing the design and releasing it into the public domain.

If the big company detests that idea, well, they don't get out of the original contract.

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Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators by pdonis on Sunday March 29, 2020 @05:23PM (#22722883)
> Agreement to cancel could be made conditional upon publishing the design and releasing it into the public domain.

It probably could have been (that would depend on the details of the terms of the original contract), but it wasn't.

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