[Shivetya]

One could have asked the same of the VW engineers involved in Dieselgate or the GM engineers who worked on the ignition switch and simply changed the part without changing the part number.

There are those who want to be part of the team and there are those who can really play on that feeling. Then there are those who just want that buck.

[Buge]

How often are parts changed without changing the part number? If it's a common practice, it doesn't have to be seen as malicious. Are there major/minor/patch level part numbers like there are version numbers of software?