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Did you just make that up?

Safety critical systems integrators only buy computing equipment explicitly designed to be safety critical. That's a requirement from the system designer (or possibly the law), not the other way around.

If a nuclear plant designer go npm install random package that doesn't explicitly say it's not designed for nuclear plants no amount of lawyers will be able to sue the package maintainer if it fails.



> Did you just make that up?

You could have just googled "nuclear power EULA" to see how common this is, instead of throwing around accusations.


I mean, it's actually very common

To underscore this, go look at the Java license agreement, which forbids its use in any life critical environment

You can't even use Java to raise and lower the wooden arm in front of a toll bridge




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