This is precisely why having commercial aircraft under total computer control is a bad idea. Even though you can fly "stick" everything must first be put through the computer - which as we have just seen is not infallible.
If Microsoft is genuinely interested in getting into open source (including adoption of the GPL or something similar) then I congratulate them. However why is it when I hear about Microsoft "doing" open source it must always be in a "lab"? To me that word implies that what they're doing is based upon unproven processes or is of the quality of something one might knock together in a university CS lab. These days I think we're a bit beyond this and people (including businesses) are taking open source products such as Linux and Apache very seriously. This stuff has a proven track record and if Microsoft is sincere they will need to drop this "lab" crap and integrate it into their day to day activities.
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This is precisely why having commercial aircraft under total computer control is a bad idea. Even though you can fly "stick" everything must first be put through the computer - which as we have just seen is not infallible.
If Microsoft is genuinely interested in getting into open source (including adoption of the GPL or something similar) then I congratulate them. However why is it when I hear about Microsoft "doing" open source it must always be in a "lab"? To me that word implies that what they're doing is based upon unproven processes or is of the quality of something one might knock together in a university CS lab. These days I think we're a bit beyond this and people (including businesses) are taking open source products such as Linux and Apache very seriously. This stuff has a proven track record and if Microsoft is sincere they will need to drop this "lab" crap and integrate it into their day to day activities.