[rramadass]

In this case the publisher has a responsibility to not throw shade at outsourcing since it was already known that it was not responsible for critical software implementation. Whether by accident or design a lot of folks will draw the inference that i pointed out. You can also look at the previous articles submitted on HN on this topic to see how everything gets manipulated.

Outsourcing is a perfectly logical approach to saving costs. But the company doing it has to be careful on how it does it, have necessary modeling/tests/verification/QC/QA in place and be very very careful in outsourcing highly critical/specialized/domain specific subsystems (if at all doing it).

From all that has been published on this topic so far, there seems to be a systemic rot in the entirety of Boeing Engineering and Management which needs to be investigated thoroughly as a whole rather than piecemeal i.e. focus on the system itself rather than the simple cogs in the system.