> pool money to change the market instead of externalizing costs You're going to need to clarify what you mean by that. >I'm sick of people defending poor long

> pool money to change the market instead of externalizing costs You're going to need to clarify what you mean by that. >I'm sick of people defending poor long-term decisions by saying they're short-term efficient I'm not defending poor long term decisions, I'm simply describing the reality of a complex set of intersecting political and business systems. Sure, maybe it would be good to lobby the FDA to change rules about updating embedded software, but what should the new rules look like? How do you make sure new linux drivers for an x-ray machine won't have a buffer overflow or off by 1 error that kills people? It has happened. I'm not even sure that Linux is definitively the right answer for embedded operating systems for safety critical systems. Do you have any evidence to support that claim, which you seem to be making? I'll be happily persuaded if you can clarify why open source is intrinsically better for long lived embedded systems like this.