>I’d like to treat software engineering like a real engineering profession. I tend to lean libertarian/free market more than anything else, but yes - it's well

>I’d like to treat software engineering like a real engineering profession. I tend to lean libertarian/free market more than anything else, but yes - it's well past time for computer "science" to be more than a cheap label. No one likes to have insurance so we mandate minimums are purchased so affected people have a chance of being made whole. Same thing with software. Why is a critical gas pipeline down for weeks after a ransomware attack? Why wasn't the company able to enact their disaster recovery plan, plow over their network and restore from backup? Probably because they have backups that have never been tested, systems that aren't even being backed up and if they have a disaster recovery play it probably exists as pure fiction and not as something that is routinely tested and updated to keep up with the state of their operating environment. I would say the above is business management 101 but to most organizations it's burdensome overhead they don't need to worry about because nothing could ever happen to them, right?