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If there where a requirement by the hospital that they have access to the source for everything this would just be a matter of hiring a consultant.

'Just hiring a consultant' to rewrite the software for medical equipment, really? For all our sakes, please never go into the medical industry.

Isn't it the case that some organizations do have negotiated access to the Windows source code?

Maybe, it's also true that 100% of Linux users legally have access to the Linux source code.

Governments sure. For vetting purposes supposedly.

Private organisations/companies? Less likely. Would they even have the ability to do a build from the source code?

"Supposedly"

Thanks for that one, I didn't put those together before.

Yeah, there's definitely a program for private organizations https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/