Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Also, I don’t understand why the software issue is/was so difficult. In the USA they have all the software expertise of Silicon Valley; e.g, Apple etc. So why - if it is true - did Boeing use cheap freelance software writers, and not tap into the excellent home grown talent they have?
Writing software is hard. Writing software which crashes securely is harder. Writing such software on a 30 year old platform with very limited hardware resources is harder. Writing such software without interfering with other critical software running for 30 years on the same platform is even harder. Writing such software in a very limited time to solve an issue not considered at the start of program is harder. Writing such software with a limited cost was probably too hard.