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I agree, at length (Score:1)
I was writing a comment to agree with you Ovid, but it got too long and turned into a whole blog post:
http://wknight8111.blogspot.com/2009/05/software-engineering-licenses.html [blogspot.com]
In short, software engineers for safety-critical systems should be licensed and certified in the same way that practitioners of other engineering disciplines are. Far from harming those other industries, regulations, licenses, and certifications have had a real business benefit to them.
Andrew Whitworth
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