[nycbug-talk] interesting read

[Dru]

On Sat, 21 May 2005 alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
>>
>> Let's keep in mind that the trustworthiness of a life-critical
>> application has everything to do with how that program was written and
>> absolutely nothing to do with the license under which it was released.
> Okay. Back to original question. What is the benefit for you to be able to
> recompile source code for your pacemaker?


That's Ike's grandfather, not mine ;-)


>> Go back to the original URL. Open source is not a product.
> Did I say it was? I said, "open source licensing is not beneficial for a
> life-critical application".


Why? At first glance, this sounds like the argument "open source licensing 
is not beneficial for security applications". If that's not what you mean, 
please clarify.

Dru