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From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.CA (David Lamb)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Programmer Licensing?
Keywords: software safety, government regulation
Message-ID: <336@qusuntrc.queensu.CA>
Date: 17 Nov 89 17:20:17 GMT
References: <39400056@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <242@cherry5.UUCP> <4600@ae.sei.cmu.edu> <1487@redsox.bsw.com>
Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.CA (David Lamb)
Organization: Queen's University, Kingston Ontario
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In article <1487@redsox.bsw.com> campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>However, programmers almost always provide their services to business or
>government organizations, who should (I believe) be smart enough (or cynical
>enough) to protect themselves.

Actually, some government sub-organizations I know would be delighted
to have some form of licencing, because this would give them some
leverage to ensure the competence of contractors they're forced to
take by the procurement rules (imposed by a portion of the government
that ISN'T smart/cynical enough - or at least not in the right way).

Of course, there are arguments that licencing wouldn't really do this.

David Alex Lamb
Department of Computing and Information Science
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
(613) 545-6067

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