I honestly hope that company will be fined to the oblivion, and for criminal charges for that, but i doubt it will happen.
> A day of train downtime in the workshop costs over 1000 USD in contractual penalties, and there are several trains stuck, so the tension level in the SPS is rising.
Also LSR, because evidently they were interested in holding a tender before and so likely don't want to be forced by Newag into overpriced maintenance contracts?
This of assumes that the owner of the train company has the skills to do this. In reality they probably would need outside help and that company might fall foul of copyright issues. (when they are distributing the modified code back to the train company, for example)
But the real problem of course is that all of this code is very likely safety critical. Can they modify it? Probably. Is it a good idea? Not really.
Rather, the companies with botched trains should demand from Newag to remove their locks, for free, and on the side sue them.
This is the way.
Which is why any government funding for new trains should come with the requirement for open source firmware.
Well better yet would be to abolish or reform copyright to be more aligned with the interests of society at large but international pressure makes that even less likely.
Who in their right mind would buy kind of equipment from a Polish company knowing that this kind of nonsense is both widespread and that their legal system has no solution?
Hoestly, "Dieselgate" is not a fitting corollary for this travesty. This is considerably more sinister. Hopefully whatever happens from here will be an agent of change for the better.