Cost centers and profit centers. *ponders* Hrmmm... So? There are large implied cost centers to licensing doctors. Yet, hospitals won't accept any Joe off the street to put on a bandaid in their ER, let alone do open heart surgery. Why? Because it's the law that only board-certified doctors can perform medicine.

Why is there a problem here, in a profession where it is theoretically possible to guarantee that the product is defect-free. This is the very profession where certification should be something which is embraced! Why the resistance?

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In reply to Re 4: Programmers should be board-certified, just like doctors, lawyers, and CPAs by dragonchild
in thread "Buffer Overflow" rant in Risks Digest by dws

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