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by Buttons840 2019 days ago
Software engineering licensure is an old debate. To say the least, I can easily imagine it making things worse, where let's say, all software has to be written in Java and get a rubber stamp by someone who hasn't actually built anything for years, and then still nobody gets held accountable when security breaches happen. Meanwhile, a bunch of college dropouts build something that's actually good using bulb, and then just have users sign away their rights in a contract instead of getting their software certified. And most of the world still runs on the Linux kernel which also had no interest in getting certified.

It's a hard problem.