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		neural_thing on June 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Medicine needs to embrace open source Fun fact, it costs hundreds of dollars, just to LOOK at some safety standards in medical devices, for example: https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/2606

derefr on June 14, 2019 [–]

Weirdly, this can also be true in FOSS software. Despite e.g. DBMSes like Postgres being open-source, SQL-the-standard costs ~USD$180 to read: https://www.iso.org/standard/63555.html

butteroverflow on June 14, 2019 | [–]

Here's a related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20174847

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