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http://csciwww.etsu.edu/gotterbarn/artlp1.htm Computer Practitioners: Professionals or Hired Guns by Don Gotterbarn. Licensing isn't currently required for computing professionals, but it is currently being looked at by several professional computing organizations. The question of licensing professionals is a very controversial and political question. Licensing generally means that to claim to practice a certain profession requires a government license, often administered through a professional organization. The general theory is that it is supposed to help those outside of the certified or licensed profession judge if someone else is capable of doing certain jobs. Licensing is perceived by many people outside the profession as a cure-all for everything they don't like about software development,(e.g., high cost, late delivery, highly publicized software failures, many safety critical applications, etc.). People who fly get concerned when they realize that the only part of an airplane that is built by an unlicensed practitioner is the avionics software which flys the airplane and controls all of its safety features. Full Article: http://csciwww.etsu.edu/gotterbarn/artlp1.htm


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