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<title>faq</title>
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<h1>Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
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<a href="#supportmymachine"></a>
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<h3><a href="#supportmymachine">Why doesn't OSCAR support [insert
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obscure/new device] yet?</a></h3>
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<p><a href="#supportmymachine">Plenty of reasons.. Pick your favourite:</a></p>
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<list>
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<li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because the 5 people who own one
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can't supply enough data to see all possible event codes?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because it doesn't feature a flow
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waveform and would be boring?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because one unpaid developer can only
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hack, create, and maintain so many importers before they go insane?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because to get it right takes a
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really, really big number of developer man-hours that would be better
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spent on other parts of the program?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because the build quality perhaps is
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garbage and nobody should own one?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because nobody else is interested in
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helping hack the formats?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because I prefer hands on and rarely
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get to play with/hack on the hardware directly?</a></li>
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</list>
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<a href="#compliance"></a>
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<h3><a href="#compliance">Why doesn't OSCAR let me generate <i>compliance</i>
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reports?</a></h3>
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<p><a href="#compliance">Mainly, to avoid attracting the lawsuits that
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would inevitably come from offering this capability. Here are the
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primary reasons why I'm dead against it:</a></p>
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<list>
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<li><a href="#compliance">• It's far too easy to change the source code
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to fake compliance reports.</a></li>
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<li><a href="#compliance">• Do you like the idea of sharing the road
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with truck drivers with an untreated sleep disorder who faked
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compliance data?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#compliance">• Data Formats of CPAP machines in OSCAR had
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to be reverse engineered because manufacturers don't release
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documentation, and accuracy can't be guaranteed.</a></li>
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<li><a href="#compliance">• To do it would require closing the
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sourcecode and establishing a relationship with manufacturers who have
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proven they care very little about data access rights.</a></li>
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</list>
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<p><a href="#compliance">This stuff is also the reason I never bothered
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hacking CPAP data Checksums... If they were public knowledge, people
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could alter SD data card content, which would not be cool.</a></p>
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