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+.SH tgtimes
+Breathing Open-Source
+.
+.PP
+The previous opus had a word or two about how difficult it could
+be to get open hardware medical devices.
+.
+The Freespireco
+.FS
+https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/
+.FE
+project aims to bring a respirator device to life as a completely
+Open Hardware project.
+.
+.PP
+The challenge is not coming-up with something that works and is
+reliable, but instead to provide a structure robust enough to be
+accepted (and funded) for performing all the necessary certifications
+needed before being allowed to the medical device market.
+.
+.PP
+There are usually categories of criticalities, and an artificial
+respirator is not escaping to the rule. The organiser of the project
+have pursued this goal since long, and might likely have a very long
+road to go.
+.
+.PP
+It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for critical medical
+devices, step-by-step paving up the road toward certification:
+designing and building devices to test these equipment, issuing
+standards for data (like a JSON schema received over a serial
+port directly from the device).
+.
+.PP
+The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor for trust.
+Precious argument for facing big pharma equipment vendors that
+are having an interest in locking their device down, preventing
+repair or even inspection.
+.
+.PP
+A journey toward braving Goliath, it might as well be easier to
+get open-source in Space. The RTEMS
+.FS
+https://rtems.org/
+.FE
+project proves it is.
+.
+.PP
+But that does not discourage the project's authors to keep going,
+not in an illusion of getting embraced by the medical industry,
+but in full foresight that nobody would want its mom's life given
+to a hobbyist toy made in a garage.
+.
+.PP
+One breath at a time, the project takes anchors onto organisations,
+foundations, structures, standards, and everything it takes to pass
+over the barrier of life-critical reliability and certification.