[nightowl_games]

Seems apparent we need a Professional Engineering Certification process and our own disciplinary board similar to other engineering disciplines.

High time.

[Hizonner]

You could probably get away with just forbidding software license agreements that disclaim liability for any and every kind of negligent stupidity.

[robocat]

So forbid the GPL and BSD licenses?

[robocat]

To make that work in the US:

1: would need to onshore all work in the bootchain (software and hardware).

2: would put liability on inidividual engineers and take liabilty away from the corporate organisiation.

3: accountability requires that engineers have authority.

4: in a team environment accountability is going to be blamed on the weakest members

5: it would completely fuck any inidividual open source development.

If you want to come up with better ideas for accountability, then read up on the witchhunts that occur after deadly failures in other engineering disciplines, and check that your idea fixes the problems you see.

The world is far more interconnected now than when my grandad was a certified engineer.