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Re:Boeing identifies new software problem on grounded 737 Max by dotancohen on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:38PM (#22259509)
I just checked and it is true. The subcontractors who wrote the MCAS software were paid $9/h:

    > Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its
    > subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making
    > as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software,
    > often from countries lacking a deep background in
    > aerospace -- notably India.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...
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Re:Boeing identifies new software problem on grounded 737 Max by salawat on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:48PM (#22259599)
Note those engineers (HCL) only worked on the Multi-Function display code. I don't have the article on hand, but they did ascertain at one point that the MCAS code was written in house. I'll try to find the article again. I think it was Seattle Times.

Found it. Was Bloomberg. Here is the old thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20309052

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Re:Boeing identifies new software problem on grounded 737 Max by thawaway1837 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:58PM (#22260216)
It’s a lot more comfortable to blame Indian engineers (and of course the HN crowd loves that explanation, no matter how invalid it is) than to place the blame where it belongs. Squarely on Boeing management.
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Re:Boeing identifies new software problem on grounded 737 Max by slumdev on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:19PM (#22259872)
It doesn't mean much that the software was written in-house.

Boeing has literally relocated their plant operations cross-country in the past in order to break the workers' unions.

Just think about how much pressure they can exert on a non-union profession like software development.

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Re:Boeing identifies new software problem on grounded 737 Max by anticensor on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:28PM (#22259953)
That is just enough for one employee.
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