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Originally Posted by red-beard
I had buddies that worked on one of the replacement systems. This was around 1991 and they were there to "fix" the buggy software. It was my understanding that they had to start over a couple of years later.
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Tru dat, they wasted a TON of money trying to get it right. The scary part nowadays is that there is so much pressure to privatize and contract out the work, that we will one day lose the oversight that has no profit motive, then it's just a matter of acceptable losses vs lawsuit payouts. The only thing keeping private companies from doing our work is the concept of certification. We certify the systems that controllers use. A private company can't afford that liability, so we are still civil servants. For now.