> No software product has ever come within a cooee of sustaining decades to centuries of uptime at a stretch in the face of sustained attack.
If you consider each change of a law as a break of the uptime (I mean: there is some "bug" in the laws, so it's changed), the uptime of, say, good embedded software is far better.
Does the AXD301 switch handle trusts, estates, criminal punishment, taxes, court procedure, torts -- indeed, every single interaction between humans and the environment that they inhabit, including into the past, into the future, into space, under ground and sea, for concepts both physical and abstract, in a heterogenous cooperative world-spanning framework applicable to all human beings, animals, plants and objects, natural or artificial, living and dead?
Don't get me wrong: software engineering has accomplished great things. My point is that the law has to face different, very fuzzy, unconstrained problems that cannot be simplified.
(Also I would've used the Space Shuttle software, that's my favourite high water mark. Or the seL4 kernel).
If you consider each change of a law as a break of the uptime (I mean: there is some "bug" in the laws, so it's changed), the uptime of, say, good embedded software is far better.