Comment by f1shy

I have explained it already in other comments, but let me break it down for you again:

The “liability”, “scrutiny”, “regulation” only generate “cover your ass” measures, bureaucracy, red tape, costs, and hardly any real measure to increase quality or safety. My work is in such a critical mission systems company, and they don’t give a shit about safety, just are interested in coming out clean or not waste too much money in settlement with dead people relatives.

> but good luck convincing a court that your family deserves restitution for you installing a random script you found on the internet into your insulin pump.

And good luck fighting a Pharma corporation for whatever did wrong. BTW, you bring the CPAP topic. Maybe you can read this at leisure [1] in this case, because it was a huge scandal, they pay. But 90% of the time, they don’t. And even if this case, with legal cost deducted, and divided by all people, is not a real compensation (spoiler alert: it never ever is!).

Please note in this case they DID KNOW about the issue, and did nothing. So much for liability and scrutiny.

[1] https://www.drugwatch.com/philips-cpap/lawsuits/