Will Security Task Force Affect OSS Acceptance? 224
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.
Talking about development (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Do they not get it? (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, I'm enjoying some Freedom onion dip right now :).
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Special circumstances for Microsoft (Score:1, Funny)
Clearly Microsoft would be forced to lobby for special exemption from these rules, otherwise no work would be done because their develoeprs would be in court all the time.
Mind you... that would be kind of selection of the fittest in terms of developers wouldnt it...