Re:The gift of it's your problem now
by WalterBright on Thursday December 30, 2021 @10:45PM
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If I sell medical software, yes, it would have to pass the FDA. Same for software going into aviation systems (the FAA). Same for NASA.
> Not all
Not a single byte of software on any of my computers now or since the 1970s have been regulated at all.
> the unregulated wild west of software is turning out to be a nightmare
How much have you paid for the software you're using right now? How much have you paid to use HackerNews? You're free to go use software written in the 80s, 90s, 00s, etc., if you like. I bet you aren't.
Software these days is far less buggy than it used to be. It may appear more buggy to you, but that is the result of a large increase in the number and efforts of sophisticated (and well-funded) engineers attempting to subvert it.
Re:The gift of it's your problem now
by edmundsauto on Friday December 31, 2021 @07:36PM
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You didn't use strong encryption that was not allowed to be shared outside the US? I remember early versions of software (PGP, I think?) in the 90s had some warnings to this effect.
Banks, the healthcare industry, the aviation industry and NASA would like a word with you, as well as US import and export control regulators.
Not all software in the US is the vomiting of code cowboys into NPM and Github, by a long shot.
>Incredible progress, world leadership, and plenty of very high quality FREE software.
Sorry, what potentially world-crippling bug are we on this week, I've lost count. Or was it a million dollar company that got hacked and exposed PII because their database layer was written by an intern using open source code written by a high-schooler who thinks writing SQL statements with printf is elegant?
No... the unregulated wild west of software is turning out to be a nightmare. The regulated part, at least, holds bad actors accountable and doesn't depend on "all eyes making bugs shallow" and just hope quality emerges from the aether.