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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by chii on Monday August 10, 2020 @01:52AM (#24105999)
a licensing system is just a form of regulation as alluded to in the comment you're replying to.

And in the end, if software engineers are to conduct themselves in moral and ethical ways, they must be empowered to do so without having to sacrifice their personal wellbeing or livelihood. Regulation, it seems, is the only way to achieve that end.

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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by austincheney on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:18AM (#24107987)
The necessary regulation is imposed and enforced via licensing. An example simply look at every other professional industry.
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