How can we more open source medical software? Given that medical devices are so heavily regulated it seems like it will be hard to get, say, an open source pacemaker system that users can hack, or at least audit.
Radio software seems to be in a similar state - cellular modems, wifi chipsets etc. are all heavily regulated and closed source, with signed code required for updates.
Since you thought of the term 'open source' on February 2nd, 1998, were you aware that someone else had already registered the OpenSource.com domain name on January 8th, 1998 [icann.org]?
Were you also aware that an open source software developer, Theo de Raadt, had already registered the domain name openbsd.org on October 12th, 1995 [icann.org] and created a public source code repo called OpenBSD on October 18th, 1995 [undeadly.org]?
And if not, do you still believe you can claim you coined that term 'open source' when it was clearly in use for p
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when
you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
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Open source and medicine (Score:5, Interesting)
How can we more open source medical software? Given that medical devices are so heavily regulated it seems like it will be hard to get, say, an open source pacemaker system that users can hack, or at least audit.
Radio software seems to be in a similar state - cellular modems, wifi chipsets etc. are all heavily regulated and closed source, with signed code required for updates.
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Since you thought of the term 'open source' on February 2nd, 1998, were you aware that someone else had already registered the OpenSource.com domain name on January 8th, 1998 [icann.org]?
Were you also aware that an open source software developer, Theo de Raadt, had already registered the domain name openbsd.org on October 12th, 1995 [icann.org] and created a public source code repo called OpenBSD on October 18th, 1995 [undeadly.org]?
And if not, do you still believe you can claim you coined that term 'open source' when it was clearly in use for p
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I'm pretty sure, she did not and does not claim that she "coined the term".
Some media did, or some idiots did.
And you are an nitpicking asshole as you are very well aware that this person never stand up in public and claimed: "I coined the term 'opens source'"
Why the fuck do you try to push her into that corner and force her to "defend herself"?
Re:Open source and medicine (Score:3)
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You mean this one: http://osi.org/ [osi.org] ??
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Look at the "Coining Open Source" section.