I think medical device manufacturers should have to support their products for some definite length of time—maybe 10 years?—or not be allowed to make devices at all
For software too, if a company has sold software and then goes out of business, it should have to give all licensed users permanent access to use it. Preferably also the source code. (Ideally we’d have open source options for everything but that’s not always practical or possible right now.)
We need a law that companies provide device owners root access for every end of life device.
That’s something the EU would do, but never America.
I think medical device manufacturers should have to support their products for some definite length of time—maybe 10 years?—or not be allowed to make devices at all
For software too, if a company has sold software and then goes out of business, it should have to give all licensed users permanent access to use it. Preferably also the source code. (Ideally we’d have open source options for everything but that’s not always practical or possible right now.)