Do you think there are a massive amount of developers out there who are at the same time avionics experts? I just don't see how being opensource would help. You wouldn't be able to even test these software projects because it requires and emulator or actual hardware to run on that you do not have. What would it chage if it was opensource?
I think the argument you're making is completely false.
First Premise is that there re not many avionics expers - I agree so having more of those experts able to look at review and learn from different implementations would be a good thing.
Second premise is that you need to be an avionics expert to review and improve avionics software, I'm not convinced, there are many clever people out there.
Third premise you can't test or run the software becuase there is no emulator; maybe if the software was open source someone would start writing an emulator - maybe an emulator could be open sourced?
Fourth point; nothing would change if it was open source - I think the quality of code that would be released would go up and that's the main thing I'm talking about, embarrassment would be the optimal solution to something like this - I'd be very suprised if Boeing would release software that used a single sensor as input to a critical system like this.
I see so basically it would mean no benefits at all. Thanks for confirming.
Now the other problem that I have this in this thread. The Boeing issue is not a software issue at all. Even if we chose the best case scenario for the software it would be still a physical design & lack of pilot education problem.
