I see a lot of flaws in this article. He claims that open source software trivializes our profession ignoring the fact that most of the time the open source as

I see a lot of flaws in this article. He claims that open source software trivializes our profession ignoring the fact that most of the time the open source as is software is the best there is. He talks about all these examples of software falling boeings, financial firms, lunar landers which by the way are all not open source. Additionally the boeing case was not even a software failure, if I recall correctly one of the sensors would physically get stuck in a wrong position, you know the kind of physical system designed by licensed engineers. Then he proceeds to list a number of perceived problems in the software industry, failing to see that they also exist in other industries, these are not symptoms of lack of professionalism they are the reality of profit seeking taken to the extreme. Liability is a thing, we don't need licensing because we are liable for the code we sell and the services we provide. Licensing does not fix any of these problems all of the bridges that have fallen, all of the planes that have crashed have been built by licensed engineers, the solution in engineering has been regulations.