[creativeSlumber]

I would have disagreed with you in the past by saying, "until it breaks something critical and you loose customers and business", but then again people just moved on from the Crowdstrike incident like business as usual.If something like that which grounded critical service globally and had an estimated 10 Billion Dollar economic impact doesn't change mindsets,I don't know what will.

[gkedzierski]

That's because no one died. All the safety critical industries are already heavily regulated. E.g. check out for example standards like DO-178C (for software in airborne systems), where you even have to _prove_ correctness of every tool and dependency you use, on top of accountability and traceability of every single line of code in your own product.

[AzN1337c0d3r]

Not to be pedantic, but people have died from software programming bugs being a primary contributing factor. One example: Therac-25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25)

[ryandrake]

Another way to put it is that people have to literally die before a company is taken to task over their product's quality. What a sad, low bar for a product!

[nixpulvis]

What about the less obvious ways people are dying. Teen suicide rates have been directly linked to social media, for example.

[SoftTalker]

And memory leaks (one of the main gripes of TFA) aren't even a thing because you cannot use malloc in this sort of code.

[ponector]

People died in Boeing 737 mcas incidents and what? Hot fix and business as usual.

Unless bug results in enormous direct financial loses like in Knight Capital, the result is the same: no one held responsible, continue business as usual.

[robertlagrant]

> and had an estimated 10 Billion Dollar economic impact

This might be more to do with these estimates than anything.