[raverbashing]

The idea that licenses would solve that is naive at best and dangerous at worse

I've known people with CS degrees and half of them would throw you a blank stare at those words

> unintuitive software UI

Most licensed engineers are guilty of this

So make sure only those who have a magical paper and studied at fancy schools (where they probably will learn PHP, the basics of sql injection - oh wait, there are new vulnerabilities, but I don't have to worry about these because I didn't learn about them in school) can work on computing, I'm sure quality will shoot right up /s

[cm2187]

Well, how was it solved in other industries? Licenses and norms. In the construction industry you can't just build a house. You have a pile of norms and regulations you have to comply with. Today anyone can open a website and start taking passwords.

I'm not looking forward that but do you have a better solution? The way the industry currently works is unsustainable. And I am not even talking about privacy invasion.

[raquo]

Because if you build or design the smallest house improperly, it could collapse and kill people. If you build a crappy WordPress site nothing of similar consequence will happen.

[mschuster91]

But if you're building any software related to human safety, bad design or bad code quality WILL kill. Just look at Toyota.

[raquo]

Not sure about other parts of the world, but here in BC we do have licensed Software Engineers for these purposes. Most software developers aren't licensed though.

[cm2187]

My point is precisely that I think the public starts to realise that what is electronic matters too.