I attended a public meeting of lawyers on the revision of the Uniform Commercial Code to make it easier for companies to ship bad software without getting sued by users. When I objected to some of the mischaracterizations about quality and testing that were being bandied around, the lawyer in charge said "well that doesn't matter, because a testing expert would never be allowed to sit on a jury in a software quality case."
I was, of course, pissed off about that. But he was right. Laws about software are going to be made and administered by people who don't know much about software. I was trying to talk to lawyers who represent companies, but that was the wrong group. I needed to talk to lawmakers, themselves, and lawyers who represent users.
Nothing about corporations governs them except the rule of law. The people within them are complicit, reluctantly or not.
I attended a public meeting of lawyers on the revision of the Uniform Commercial Code to make it easier for companies to ship bad software without getting sued by users. When I objected to some of the mischaracterizations about quality and testing that were being bandied around, the lawyer in charge said "well that doesn't matter, because a testing expert would never be allowed to sit on a jury in a software quality case."
I was, of course, pissed off about that. But he was right. Laws about software are going to be made and administered by people who don't know much about software. I was trying to talk to lawyers who represent companies, but that was the wrong group. I needed to talk to lawmakers, themselves, and lawyers who represent users.
Nothing about corporations governs them except the rule of law. The people within them are complicit, reluctantly or not.