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Weird comparison. The equivalent with medicine is not 'reading the label', but understanding the chemistry, reading all the research, reading all the associated
by trog 5y ago
Weird comparison. The equivalent with medicine is not 'reading the label', but understanding the chemistry, reading all the research, reading all the associated papers, understanding all the biology, etc.
It's reduced to you needing to only read the label by regulation.
Expecting people to read the source of their dependencies, outside of very specific use cases and industries, is a lost cause.
- shukantpal 5y agoThe difference is that NPM packages are provided for free.
- Zababa 5y agoMany drugs are free or almost free where I live. Well, not really free, they're paid by our taxes. And npm is paid by Microsoft not paying theirs. So the difference isn't so big.
- shukantpal 5y ago"And npm is paid by Microsoft not paying theirs." LOL ok.
- maccolgan 5y agoImagine if you needed a doctoral degree and a billion dollar FDA study before being able to publish open source code.