Legal traps in open source

[Christopher Yeoh]

At 2002/10/30 12:03+1100  Ben Elliston writes:
> >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Hawkins <matt=FZZlsWxfgs407B9jJ53gCodd74u8MsAO at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
>   Matthew> be where they are today if this was not the case.  That's
>   Matthew> why I think its important that hardware and software
>   Matthew> engineers be treated the same way as civil and other kinds
>   Matthew> of engineering.  This would probably involve legislation to
>   Matthew> push the point home.  I'd like to be involved in advocating
>   Matthew> this to whoever the right people are.
> 
> Alright -- let's do that, then.  How many people do you know that
> would immediately be excluded from working in the field due to
> insufficient qualifications?

Or we could just lower expectations in other fields to what we have
for software and accept that a bridge or building will fall down once
a week :-)

Chris
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