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You keep conflating unions and professional organizations. They're not the same thing.

• GuiA 10y ago
  We have a professional organization, it's called the ACM. I've been a member of it all of my career, and no employer has ever given a shit. Why isn't it succeeding at doing what you want it to do? I want better ethics in software as much as everyone else in this thread, and I'm putting out these comments in the hope of having people reply with concrete, realistic paths to how we can achieve it, and so far I'm not seeing it.
  • morgante 10y ago
    We need to establish the idea that to work professionally as a software engineer, you must be a member of a professional organization. This could come through two paths: 1. Directly lobbying the biggest tech companies to institute it in their hiring. If Google required ACM membership for all developers, ACM membership would actually matter. This would also help to trickle down to small employers. 2. Lobby at "access points." Maybe AWS should require that any system with an annual bill of $1k or more had a professional developer involved. 3. Lobby the government to require professional licensing for anyone working on large-scale production software.