It's our duty (Score 1)

A legal quality guarantee document would be so so important imo: Engineers and architects may build the solid structures that a lot of our lives are based on, but programmers, and everybody else involved in the life cycle of some IT related system should be able to give guarantees, or at least be held responsible if they do a bad job.

We're building the "virtual" structures of the world, and I know that up to say 10 years ago they weren't really that important, every day their importance grows. And with that our responsibility to make them work well also grows.

Maybe the whole Y2K deal could have been dealt with better had the original programmers been involved legally where possible, or rather, it could have been avoided altogether if there had been already a legal framework to go by to do with making calls direct to the bios (surely the job of the OS).

So I'm quite happy that slowly the world of IT is getting some regulations and things in. But it's up to everybody to make sure the regulations are put together well and justly.

Alejandro