But it's terrible power for them because now they have to maintain that firmware, and that's very expensive, so they don't do a good job of it at all, and we can pretend it's OK right up until it's not.
Legal liability for broken, unmaintained firmware would very quickly bring about the world that BMC wants.
Legal liability for the madness of alarming confusing systems in the flight control room when the airplane goes down with more than 200 lives lost in the sea is about half the yearly income of an exec's $400K.
Legal liability for broken, unmaintained firmware would very quickly bring about the world that BMC wants.