This reminds me very much of the warnings by people like Robert C Martin over a decade ago that unless the software industry adopted better practices for qualit

This reminds me very much of the warnings by people like Robert C Martin over a decade ago that unless the software industry adopted better practices for quality and regulated itself regulators would step in. Regulators understand very little about the software process so the laws they are pass are unlikely to be the best way to solve it. Years after those lectures little has changed and now the regulation is coming at an increasing pace. None of this will be good for small software companies, this sort of regulation will entrench the big players as it always does.