[nycbug-talk] interesting read

[Isaac Levy]

Hi Alex, All,

On May 21, 2005, at 1:14 PM, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:

> On Sat, 21 May 2005, Dru wrote:
>
>> http://homepage.mac.com/yaztromo/iblog/C721686556/E320292175/
> Frankly, in healthcare, for life-critical applications, there isn't all
> that much benefit for going with open sores.
>
> I'll ask you this: Will you trust your life to an open-source 
> application?
>
> -alex

I'd Absolutely trust Open Source software over proprietary 
counterparts, especially if it came out of the BSD camps where software 
is taken this seriously in contexts like this.

(i.e. thinking about it, I'd generally not trust my life to any Linux, 
or about 90% of the software in the world- open or closed)

I'll be sending flames to /dev/null on that one.

--
I've had a few "snafu's" in life with medical 'computer' screw-ups in 
my life, (still alive :)- no machine made by a human is infallible- it 
always comes down to a culture of understanding and trust to make 
anything work (like medicine).

--
Just food for thought here- but with regard to trusting one's life to 
open source software, where'd OpenSSH come from, and what implications 
does *it* have with regard to human life?

Best,
.ike