CDR: RE: was: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?

[petro]

>
>Imagine if the software business were like this - that the programmers
>of the late 40's had formed an American Programmers Association,
>and it was unlawful for anyone without APA certification to write
>code for money. Ditto for using software not blessed by the APA.
>Entrance to the hallowed membership would, of course, require a
>four year electrical engineering degree followed by a post graduate
>degree from an accredited computer school.
>
>I'll leave it to others to imagine the world with an APA. I think it would
>be a much poorer place.

	Yeah, but we probably wouldn't have Windows either.

	It might be a fair trade...
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