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Re:Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flig... by datavirtue on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:03PM (#36887476)
The military-ness has now outweighed the engineering culture in those companies...making them effectively government agencies that are publicly traded. I don't have a positive outlook for any stakeholder.
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Re:Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flig... by ecshafer on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:02PM (#36887953)
IMO the only reason those companies are not literal divisions of the government is plausible deniability so they can sell things to other countries. I would guess 95% of their revenue is from the government, and they have very strict government regulations. If we just nationalized Lockheed and friends, I would be we could get improved efficiency.
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