That would seem to result in industry consolidation and declining innovation.
Software isn't made of physical materials anyway, it's speech. How about instead we impose open source requirements to enable public verification of critical systems?
Software isn't made of physical materials anyway, it's speech. How about instead we impose open source requirements to enable public verification of critical systems?
Some software is critical infrastructure and needs to be treated as such. We are not special. Every other engineering discipline has gone through this same process as and arrived at the inevitable conclusion that government regulation is essential, but only after causing unthinkable damage to the public first
I say we regulate the word engineer the same way it is in many countries for real engineering. if you don't want to progress beyond code monkey, you can be a software developer and innovate yet another react clone. if you want to be called an engineer, you learn and follow the regulations.