@EMIT
I think I've brought "B" up in at most about 5% of my posts on the subject, highlighted the early problems in the A320 FBW design - along with the efforts to rectify them - and yet I'm still singled out as "defending 'A'".
As such, it doesn't matter what you're actually trying to say - there are those that will always try to bring it down to the same old arguments.
The truth about the FBW design on both sides of the Atlantic is very easy to look up, and neither manufacturer ever set out to use the technological advances to sideline human pilots. But people believe what they want to believe and have their reasons for doing so. If it becomes obvious that you're talking to someone who will hold on to their prejudice no matter how much hard data you dig up, it's best to leave it there for the sake of your own sanity.
