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I hope even author of this article would agree that it's stupid to require licence for building a simple browser game. Yet it feels that building essential lif

I hope even author of this article would agree that it's stupid to require licence for building a simple browser game. Yet it feels that building essential life- saving machines running on windows XP with internet access should be a crime. I think if anything we need regulation on the industry-level so that e.g. plane controllers won't be running on operating system which can restart and update without users consent. It would make prefect sense to require certain level of certification to work on code in some selected industries.

cush 5y ago
When people think of industries that need regulation, it’s aviation and healthcare. But the fact is there is so much liability in every industry and there’s nothing protecting consumers from reckless incompetence or misuse of personal data. Ethics is at the core of all other Engineering disciplines, and there’s no reason we couldn’t regulate Software similarly. It protects the public.