On Jun 19, 7:45*pm, wrote:
In rec.aviation.piloting Le Chaud Lapin wrote:

On Jun 19, 4:15?pm, wrote:
In rec.aviation.piloting Le Chaud Lapin wrote:

The material cost of software is $0.

Material cost is zero, specification cost is modest, development
cost is getting serious, and reliability testing cost is horrendous.
Market capitalization of Textron: $13.2US billion.
Market capitalization of Garmin $9.2US billion.

Irrelevant to the cost of software.

There is something very special about $0 material cost, $0 overhead
cost, etc.

One more time and I'll type slowly, the cost of reliability testing is
not zero.

But not prohibitive for a business that builds software systems for
aviation.

Garmin is doing very well selling hardware/software systems that they
have tested for reliability.

-Le Chaud Lapin-