Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard

Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by scottlocklin on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:44AM (#25287953)

>they will slowly be replaced by other businesses headed by ruthless sociopathic maximizers of shareholder value.

I dunno man, the culture came from McDonnell-Douglass which was actually purchased by engineer-centric-at-the-time Boeing. How this culture spread in Boeing ought to be some kind of HBS case study, except they wouldn't notice that it should be taken as a cautionary tale.

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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by dotancohen on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:03AM (#25288049)

For those unfamiliar with the case: Boeing and McDonnell-Douglass actually merged, but the name stayed Boeing. It is often said in the industry that McDonnell-Douglass bought Boeing with Boeing's own money.

The company that today uses the name Boeing looks, acts, and quacks a lot more like 1970s-1995 MD did, than 1970s-1995 Boeing did.

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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by alavesto on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:12AM (#25288465)

And McDonnell-Douglass were/are true masters of building deadly aircraft.

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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by SerLava on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:33AM (#25322050)

My comment really didn't intend to rule out mergers, or even businesses changing by themselves. I'm just saying they inevitably end up that way, by replacement if necessary.

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