This is only incidentally a software issue. It's a software issue that accidentally - but perhaps inevitably - highlighted a political issue. Which is an exampl

This is only incidentally a software issue. It's a software issue that accidentally - but perhaps inevitably - highlighted a political issue. Which is an example of dysfunctional corporate dictatorship. What actually happened here is that some people dared to question the hierarchy. Since that was unpossible - underlings can never be allowed to question hierarchy - it turned into a political circus where the authorities spent insane amounts of time and money trying to maintain an established order that was in fact broken. If this seems extreme, consider that in a functional system someone would have said "Wait, that looks wrong, we'd better fix that." There would have been some inconvenience and expense and possibly some awkward questions. But it was essentially a trivial issue, and the cost-to-fix would have been far lower than it will be now. Dysfunctional hierarchies are defined by this kind of refusal to deal with reality when inconvenient facts are presented by those who are considered subordinate. It literally becomes more important to punish those who challenge authority than to fix the real problem.