Will Security Task Force Affect OSS Acceptance?

An anonymous reader writes "An interesting article published by SD Times: "Application Security Goes National" discusses some of the talking points generated by a federal task force that will make recommendations to the Department of Homeland Security. One of these talking points is to license software developers and make them accountable for security breaches. Licensed developers would get paid more as well. The article also mentions that "Executives" might not wish to work with smaller undiciplined partners and a little further down that "Hobbyists create Web services [and] professionals create them" and that "companies relying on critical infrastructure Web services need confidence". Would OSS have to be writen entirely by licensed developers to be considered secure? . Yahoo Finance has another article on the subject." The SD Times article is current, despite the incorrect date on it.

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Re:Do they not get it?

[the_2nd_coming]

yeah...is is called Software Engineering.

very few commercial software applications use correct software engineering techniques which is why so many bugs are in the software. medical equipment and air craft equipment and car equipment is tested. re tested and run through all the engineering processes in order to make it bullet proof.

real software engineering is not profitable with out making software cost a bloat load more than it does.