On Mon, Jun 02, 2008, Peter Miller wrote: > Will the parallel be: you get malpractice insurance, or you can have > your future wages garnished forever if you get sued. Doctors have to > pay their malpractice insurance to have their pro-bono work covered. I > expect software folks will too.
If the analogy holds too closely, the inability of people to start their careers in Free Software is the same: the insurance would only possible to get if you happen to be trained and accredited in the approved manner and could well depend on having prior supervised professional experience. If a world that looks anything like the medical litigation landscape happens in software, Free Software will look awfully different, that's for sure, and it likely won't have the appeal of being a good place to learn without a heavy cash investment. I think I'm on the opposite side of the fence from most people here: if the world was likely to demand that kind of quality assurance from the industry, I suspect it would have already done so in a manner impossible to ignore. I suppose a demonstration that that kind of quality is achievable for a suitable price would change things. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
