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On Monday, 1 July 2019 09:55:16 BST Henry Bremridge wrote: > > Is it pay peanuts .. or is it the start of open source software for > aircraft > > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software > -outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers > > Answers on a postcard Sounds like usual gripe of someone replaced by cheaper developers. The two issues are claimed to be nothing to do with the outsourcing to India in the same article, which suggests they were probably caused by well paid Americans. That isn't to say that there aren't issues with outsourcing, especially where the company lacks experience, I saw this early in my career circa 1992, with outsourcing to very well paid British engineers who didn't know the problem domain, but there is nothing in the article that suggests the subcontracting was relevant to the issue. Some of the commentary around on the 737 Max issue is plain wrong and asserts attributes to the 737 Max which would mean it would never have received its airworthiness certificates. As such unless there is an avionics specialist with insider details I suspect we can't add much. As regards making Boeing code free software, whilst they already contribute to GNU/Linux and various projects, they would appear to have little to lose from making much of their code free software, because it would allow it to be used by software code testing tool vendors to identify common flaws, whilst it seems unlikely people will be able to build Boeing like aircraft without rather more tangible engineering assets. Also likely competitors would need rather more assurances than downloading code for Boeing GitHub repos. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq