Moggie!
You still don't get it. We could argue all day long about whether or not Beoing CHANGED the rudder fast enough, and it would be a valid arguement.
But what beoing did do, is as soon as the problem was documented they speeded up the approach speeds for the 737 so that a hard over would no longer mean a loss of the aircraft and published a procedure to deal with the failure. With the fuel pumps they again published a procedure to deal with the problem untill it could be fixed.
Airbus on the other hand has known for years that there is a problem with the A300 tail. They could have at the very least published a limitation, or a restriction on doublets. They did no such thing!
That is an absolute fact that you cannot dispute. And as a result 265 people are gone. Airbus did not make even the slightest effort. If you think boeing is poor, then by your standards airbus is worse! Your inability to see that makes you the biased protectionist one.
Cheers
WIno