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Software is hard. Deal with it. Technical regulations, if you mean government regulations on all facets of the software industry, will bring much more problems than it is supposed to fix.

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Except if you choose simple and lean software/protocols. And those won't be immutable: what's immutable would be their simplicity not their specs.

Do you have some current or past exemplars in mind?

Let's take the web as an example: light web browsers with noscript/basic (x)html.

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