Re: "Wikinomics" on Boeing and GNU

[Leslie Turriff]

On 2024-07-01 17:33:35 Akira Urushibata wrote:
> A whole chapter of "Wikinomics" (if I recall correctly) is devoted to
> Boeing and its development of the model 787 "Dreamliner" jet plane.
> When two 787-Max planes crashed and 345 lives were lost in 2018 and 2019
> Boeing was criticized for putting profits above safety.  These accidents
> changed my attitude toward the book and its sequel: "Macro-Wikinomics."
> I now feel that the authors were overly optimistic and failed to
> examine the negative side of their subject matter.
>
> With the most recent 737-Max incident Boeing's corporate culture has
> again come under scrutiny.

        Certainly Boeing, after acquiring McDonnel Douglas, has made 
profitability 
more important than safety.  I can't see how their behaviour relates to the 
concept of Wikinomics?

Leslie
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