If they are just a set of rules made up by people, why can't we call them "laws"? You know, like those other rules made up by people. The article advocates a

If they are just a set of rules made up by people, why can't we call them "laws"? You know, like those other rules made up by people. The article advocates a set of laws intended to prevent certain people from writing software, and constraining how a select few do write software. It doesn't talk about how exactly those laws will be decided on. Although it does say they are "facts", it doesn't tell me about a way to observe them for myself, so I guess the author just looked into the mind of God, and I should take his word for it.