Yep, I agree with you there. Not having complete knowledge about the Airbus FBW system but I do know that there is a rather large amount of redundancy involved such as the hardware being delivered from different companies and at least two different programming languages being used. This is of course to weed out any one hardware glitch or software bug.
It would be interesting to see if the Airbus protection leaves a "nullzone" between for instance stall IAS and allowed IAS, and more importantly, if such a nullzone is big enough for a pilot to be able to fly closer to stall speed than the Airbus protection would allow? Personally I think, as a non-pilot, that the Airbus protection is more of help than hindrance when it comes to for instance a CFIT situation that requires maximum use of flight controls, and that Boeings choice is purely a "mental" decision, i.e. the cumstomers desire/demands overruled any possible technological advantages of the Airbus method.
Hope I´m making some sense.
