These design flaws in the software running on modern aircraft are symptoms of a more fundamental flaw in the philosophy with which modern software is designed:

These design flaws in the software running on modern aircraft are symptoms of a more fundamental flaw in the philosophy with which modern software is designed: the idea that the authors of the software understand the application better than the user. I think this is part of the reason people who like free software defend it almost religiously: they understand the dangerous of the authors and users of software being legally segregated.