Some reasons I would say: - I think SW needs much more creativity than other industries. - Typically SW is not mission critical (in mission critical things, i

Some reasons I would say: - I think SW needs much more creativity than other industries. - Typically SW is not mission critical (in mission critical things, it IS pretty much regulated to uncomfortable extremes) You could regulate it to death, and would probably have some positive impact by some metric, but you would be easily overtaken by FOSS, where for sure there will be less restrictions.