Hmm. Makes me wonder. If generators really are just a giant blob of metal and very simple (and I have no reason to disbelieve the GP comment)... well... it cou

Hmm. Makes me wonder. If generators really are just a giant blob of metal and very simple (and I have no reason to disbelieve the GP comment)... well... it could be kind of interesting to build an open source software stack to handle switchover. Because, disclaimers notwithstanding, the code would ostensibly be super simple too. So even if it couldn't officially be used directly, it would certainly provide a good base for engineers to copy-paste, either literally or ideologically (and then thoroughly verify, of course!). Okay... thinking about it, I'm probably wrong - either generator control has some fundamental intricacies that make it not-completely-simple, or all sites have edge cases that have to be baked into the firmware by a system integrator/electrical engineer. I say this because I'm (genuinely) trying to figure out why the PLCs failed - both in OVH's case, and in AWS's case (see elsewhere in this thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15676189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15676189). It's obvious there are crazy but legit reasons for this kind of thing to happen. I'm very curious what the complexity scale here is.