About time! As Alex Papadimoulis explained when he (briefly) changed the name of The Daily WTF to "Worse Than Failure", the problem is not just that so many s

About time! As Alex Papadimoulis explained when he (briefly) changed the name of The Daily WTF to "Worse Than Failure", the problem is not just that so many software projects fail, it's that so many are passed off as a "success" just because they are finished, even if they don't work. That's "worse than failure" because at least you learn from failures. I think the free market could curb the "software quality problem" but only if software companies are held accountable. If there were more awareness among software customers of the low quality of most software written, and a potential that a software company gets the bejeebus sued out them for shoddy work, then there are several good things would come of it: 1. Companies producing shoddy software would go out of business instead of scamming their way along. 2. When their asses are on the line, maybe they'll start demanding some quality before quantity. 3. Maybe we'll finally see a state or national licensing requirement for programmers, like there is for nurses and doctors.