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When you're an end user of a product that, if it fails as part of your overall product, is going to kill a bunch of people, that's how it works: the ultimate responsibility falls on you.
This holds even if there aren't such implications - if you buy a Dell laptop and a video card manufactured by nVidia fails, are you going to nVidia for tech support? You're not. You're going to Dell. That's how systems integrations work.
Yes, it's really the only (good) way it can work.
And although there are differences in my forthcoming example, there are also parallels: when working with validated IT systems in a regulated industry, if I am the "system owner" at the point of use, then I am the one ultimately responsible for ensuring that it functions correctly - even if it was a commercial system, written by another company, and running on their servers, and installed and configured and maintained by them (actually the typical SaaS situation these days) - I am still responsible. And if there are serious problems, it's me and my company that will take the hit. If you let me off the hook, who would really have responsibility for making sure that everything works correctly? - no one.
Members of Congress were already writing to the FAA and asking them to deny this exemption to safety regulations, no doubt Boeing saw the writing on the wall. Thank goodness. I mean I get it, if Boeing has to do things safely, it will cost more, but safety isn't an unreasonable thing to ask for in jet planes carrying hundreds of people.
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