On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 3:23 AM, Laurențiu Păncescu lpancescu@centosproject.org wrote:
An HFT algorithm losing 2% of transactions for several months would be a major issue, and worse things can happen in critical applications in medical, military or heavy industry - it's difficult enough to get software right without constantly changing dependencies
Wait. Step back for a moment.
Are we trying to claim Stream is what would cross the line for not complying with IEC 62304? Because as far as I can tell CentOS 7/8 and RHEL 7/8 never claimed to be compliant with IEC 62034.
Did the medical industry ever really learn it's lesson from the Therac-25? [1]
Or are they still horrifically cutting corners on basic concepts? [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 [2] https://hackaday.com/2018/01/22/seek-and-exploit-security-vulnerabilities-in...
I would like to visit how we can use Linux in mission critical settings but I think it is outside the scope of the impact killing CentOS 8 at the end of 2021 has.