• david.wright-948385 (5/15/2014)


    Software and IT operations for the banking sector are already regulated, and rightly so. So too is software for military and health purposes. But it isn't reasonable to impose the same regulation on a mobile phone game. Also, regulation stifles imagination and innovation and greatly increases the cost of entry to the market place and the cost of development.

    I'm not saying everything in the garden is rosy - clearly some areas may need more regulation than they have, but 'fit for purpose', due diligence and data protection legislation already play a role. To suggest that all software should be the subject of the type of regulation used in civil engineering, is to ignore the breadth and diversity of the industry and its dynamic, innovative nature. It's the sort of plan that the European Commission are so happy to suggest.

    That's all very true.

    But if I buy a very expensive software product - be it an operating system or Photoshop or something similar - I'd like to expect some quality. Not a half broken product riddled with bugs. "Oh yeah that feature doesn't work, but we'll have a patch in a few months..."

    I'd like to see that if my business is losing money because of faulty software, that the vendor can be held responsible in some way.

    Yes, software is very complex and you can't expect something like SQL Server to be completely bug free, but on the other hand do we just have to accept what the vendors shove down our throat?

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