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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by aaaaaaaaaaa10 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:31AM (#22235278)
"I have never seen a stronger case for the need to have third-party certification and testing of software and the people involved in building it."

Are you proposing that every GitHub repository be certified by a third-party and tested before use? Besides, "high quality" software like Google Maps or iOS don't have anything close to "third-party certification".

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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by jordanpg on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:36AM (#22235331)
I'm saying that if software developers are going to be solving problems that are this closely connected with the public interest and safety then they should be held to industry or regulatory standards on par with the ones faced by engineers building airplanes and bridges.
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