[elromulous]

The audience of this website is disproportionately aware of the Therac-25 compared to the general public. For the obvious reason, engineering, but also geographically: The Therac-25 being a North American incident that affected Canada and the US. Whereas Theryc is a French company.

[tjoff]

While I do agree with your point, as a Swede not even born when the incidents happen I still knew about it, was brought up in a computer science class.

[XorNot]

If I have cancer then whether to trust the radiation machine due to the name is certainly a choice I can make, but you get to own your own priorities in that case.

[tjoff]

I only commented on the case, nothing else.

[torginus]

I feel like I have heard about this in a million different management anecdotes in my corporate trainings about management stuff/QA.

[ErroneousBosh]

> The Therac-25 being a North American incident that affected Canada and the US

CGR who provided the accelerators and basic PDP11-based computing platform were a French company.

> Whereas Theryc is a French company.

I have been a Citroën enthusiast for about 30 years. I love French cars.

I have repaired lots of Valeo electronics modules for vehicles.

I'm not sticking my head in a French fucking particle accelerator.