[ken]

"Boeing" is 100,000+ people, and many times more in contractors and subcontractors. As you say, there's redundancy and sanity checks. No one person is solely responsible for any system on a BCA aircraft.

Blaming "Boeing" here is about like blaming "Microsoft" for a bug in a Microsoft product, or "NASA" for Apollo 13. All the problems may have taken place in a building with that name on the door, but it's still very far from a single point of failure.

[yummypaint]

The whole point of a corporation is to protect the liability of the individuals in the company. I would argue Boeing and Microsoft are the correct entities to blame. After all, if the people who actually fucked up aren't individually liable, and the organization as a whole isnt responsible, then who is?