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>There's a long list of incredibly damaging fuckups by software companies,

Just one example - Fujitsu, associated with the biggest ever misscarriage of justice in England because of bugs in their Horizon software, still going strong...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68233988

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Another - AECL, developed the Therac-25 radiation machine that delivered far more the expected dose of radiation than wanted due to a software bug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

No class action lawsuit, just some relatives of dead patients settling out of court.

Great example, but sadly a collective of wronged Postmasters didn’t (at least until recently) have much clout - partly hence the problem. In the Crowdstrike case, we have multiple major airlines, multiple airports, hospitals, and some large media outlets. Probably billions of dollars of losses.

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