I'd argue if it wasn't for the media "doom and gloom" a lot of companies (maybe even the vast majority), would not have had their C level folks divert money towards fixing the issue.
The simple reason is that any one company may have been liable for a very small portion, which if it failed, would not have caused much trouble. But that failure combined with many other failures down the entire chain of connected and unconnected software would have added up to something much greater than the sum of parts.
We saw similar stuff happen with Flash, Silverlight (which wasn't as reported a concern since silverlight usage was so low, but I saw it within my company).
The media pressure was a significant reason why every company needed to have a plan to deal with it.
The simple reason is that any one company may have been liable for a very small portion, which if it failed, would not have caused much trouble. But that failure combined with many other failures down the entire chain of connected and unconnected software would have added up to something much greater than the sum of parts.
We saw similar stuff happen with Flash, Silverlight (which wasn't as reported a concern since silverlight usage was so low, but I saw it within my company).
The media pressure was a significant reason why every company needed to have a plan to deal with it.