> Hint: It puts downward pressure on price. Same reason they are trying again with AI.
You say it like it's a bad thing.
About occupational licensing for software: it's also a uniquely global market, so I'm not sure how any one economy moving ahead with occupational licensing would work, unless they also restricted what software you can import or use in the cloud.
> About occupational licensing for software: it's also a uniquely global market, so I'm not sure how any one economy moving ahead with occupational licensing would work, unless they also restricted what software you can import or use in the cloud.
Relatively easily, tbh. Just create a regulation that requires either the country's standards or equivalent ones to be used in the creation of any software sold to people/businesses in the country/region.
I don't really, but at least there would be standards. Like, the massive amount of hacks and breaches we've seen in the past ten years indicate that something needs to happen.
There are plenty of standards. For example, the GDPR is a well known one (mostly because everyone is tired of pressing "Accept cookies" buttons).
But standards are always going to be slow to react. Even in mature industries like construction the standards are still trying to find completeness. The standards today are way different than they were a decade ago and they'll be way different ten years from now.
And building construction is something that we've been doing for almost as long as humans have existed. Those standards have been built up over centuries and millennia. Software is gaining some maturity, but still a young pup in the grand scheme of things, so it hasn't had much time to even get through the easy standards.
You say it like it's a bad thing.
About occupational licensing for software: it's also a uniquely global market, so I'm not sure how any one economy moving ahead with occupational licensing would work, unless they also restricted what software you can import or use in the cloud.