Re:Nothing's going to change (Score 1)

Few people (rightly so) would tolerate Boeings or Airbuses that fell out of the sky through faulty software.

Agreed. But how many of those people would realise that the *reason* they fell out of the air was faulty software? Joe Bloggs (and I generalise, bear with me) appears to have an intellectual disconnect between software (that's the stuff that's in their desktop computers) and things (cars, planes, rockets, etc) working the way they should.

The software in things like aeroplanes is, for all intents and purposes, hidden from the consumer/public eye. There will be no outcry for better engineering practises, or more training for software developers, because the public don't *get it*.

To add fuel to my argument, it's not sexy enough to get the media excited either. And the media - like it or not - is what drives public opinion. And politicians make decisions (including budgetery decisions) based on public opinion.