A friend of mine worked on firmware that shipped on hardware made by a household name and installed en masse through the entire US. Fairly essential infrastruct

A friend of mine worked on firmware that shipped on hardware made by a household name and installed en masse through the entire US. Fairly essential infrastructure. I almost asked if you’re that friend. The difference is that with what he was working on, it was a beloved money maker that was implausible to materially change because of recertification costs. The last I heard, they were buying second-hand IDE licenses on eBay because the IDE package had been EOL’d ~10-15 years prior.