It ain't broke, so don't fix it [software engineering]

  • Authors:
  • T. DeMarco

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The author considers how setting up a formal licensing mechanism for software engineers (even one limited to those involved in the most safety-critical applications) would be a blunder, doomed to undo its own best intentions. It would be, at best, a dangerous mischief and, at worst, lead us into a positive ethical quagmire