Part of my job required programming or more precisely understanding programming and buying software. Most of the problems with software/firmware today are caused by haste, sloppiness, and lack of knowledge and insufficient testing. Haste--the companies are in such a hurry to get the software or product on the market that they do not allow sufficient time to get the program to run correctly the same reason for insufficient testing. Sloppiness--the programmer in working to get the software/firmware running correctly insert "patches" to fix an issue then when it is fixed do not go back and clean up the code; i.e. remove the old unused code which may have directions to it elsewhere. Lack of knowledge--a rooky. Finally insufficient testing--Through either haste to get the product in the field or/and arrogance companies and programmers do not allow testing to fully verify the code works right. There is one more thing that gets in the way--the programmers believe that the code belongs to them. They totally forget that someone, namely the customer, paid for their time to write that code and therefore owns it. As a group they refuse to put notes in the3 source code or allow the customer to have it. John Deere is no different than most other of the companies. If they want to keep the software and charge for "maintaining" it then they MUST make it clean with left over code, well tested so it does what it is supposed to do all the time every time and MOST IMPORTANTLY not ask the customer to pay for it in the purchase price of the equipment.
Remember I bought equipment with software and software only my attitude that sine I paid for writing the code the government owned cause more then one fight. Which the companies never won. I required the source code be delivered with notes so another programmer could figure out what each module was doing; and that the code be fully tested. Remember my big hammer that software/firmware was going on a ship that went to sea without the programmer or into a weapon that did not carry the programmer with it. I would pose this question to the CEO "Do you really want your kid in that ship, in a fight and have your program quit with no way to get it fixed?" "Or depending on that weapon to win a fight and keep him/her alive?" One of those question variation won every contracting fight.
I will say that there is one company that believes this and delivers the source code with the ship or weapon.
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