Zachariah comments on Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

INB4 companies start making proprietary ammo that only works with their special gun and now they can gouge your money on the tail end of product life.

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[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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

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[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

This type of laws already exist in some cases, but realistically no one knows that the company won't just go bankrupt in 5 years. Open sourcing things is a "reasonable" last resort option, or rather, the only viable one

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[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I would love to see that codified: you go bankrupt, you go open source!

I’m not holding my breath though. They usually get bought and sold and scrapped for parts along the way

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[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Medical devices are already supported for a very long time. At least the official ones used in hospitals.

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

Supported? Maybe. Making sure that it works with the latest technology? No.

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2019/08/02/two-years-later-windows-xp-devices-can-still-make-the-health-care-industry-wannacry/

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[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I was thinking about implanted devices, e.g. Second Sight https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60416058

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.)

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