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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Ways to avoid regulation
Message-ID: <10987@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 23 Oct 89 04:45:16 GMT
References: <23226@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: diamond@ws.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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In article <23226@cup.portal.com> Jerome_V_Vollborn@cup.portal.com writes:

>The auditors would also check the backgrounds, knowledge level, and 
>continuing education of the developers.

Fine.

>The knowledge level of the developers would probably be checked using
>the ACM self evaluation tests.

Not so fine.  Read the copyright notices on those things.  I hope ACM
would have the integrity to sue abusers.

>Continuing education would be checked by participation in 
>technical societies (ACM or IEEE Computer Society) or college courses.  

Excellent.

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