> one way to look at the explosion of software development in the past > 30-40 years is that it is an industry lacking sufficient regulation and > thus a very lucrative area to do business. because there is no > regulation you can get some random idiot in whatever country to write > your code and there are no repercussions if the code blows up after you > sell it someone else, you cannot be held liable for using second-rate > labor to build your product.
> 3) Even the best tested and mathematically proven software (think IBM space > shuttle code) has bugs. I forget the exact cost because I don't have the > paper nearby but the per line cost of the shuttle code was astronomical! If > all software cost as much per line, no one would own a computer, except > maybe governments and multi-billionaires. http://www.jstor.org/pss/1879431
