Comment Surely it's not the worst thing (Score 1) 247
Sure, pacemakers and insulin pumps may run closed-source software. But there have got to be countless systems running critical aspects of infrastructure or even the military using closed-source software as well. Wasn't the Navy using Windows at some point in its ships?
Seems that the stakes are much higher in the latter although given the pace of medical technology/wetware innovation, having some sort of review or 3rd party testing worked into the approval process now rather than later would be prescient.