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That’s a bad faith question asked in an attempt to setup a straw man argument and you know it, and I know it, so cut the crap. Worry about the guy writing softw
by SllX 6y ago
That’s a bad faith question asked in an attempt to setup a straw man argument and you know it, and I know it, so cut the crap. Worry about the guy writing software for all the nuclear power plants we’re not building, not the guy who makes webshit, word processors and compilers for a living.
Architects, Doctors and Lawyers are closer to one extreme, you can make as strong a case for licensing them as you can for not licensing them. Software engineers are vocationally with the florists, where licensing is less a matter of ethics or workmanship or safety as it is an artificial government sanctioned means of preventing new competition from entering the market, or only allowing it in a controlled and revocable manner.
- pixl97 6y agoWriters of open source software are winding up to one day spin in their graves reading the comments of the authoritarians demanding software licensing in here.
- SllX 6y agoAgreed. There is no professional class so enlightened that it won’t use whatever means available, governmental or otherwise, to insulate itself from competitive pressures.