From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bf72ca9e8a6b3cf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Subject: Re: Software Engineering in Florida Date: 1999/11/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 547175345 References: <1e0rgtb.6j187t1hibcsaN@[209.132.126.64]> <3828ACA7.7B376431@mitre.org> X-Trace: typhoon.nyu.edu 942291180 128.122.140.194 (Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:33:00 EDT) Organization: New York University Ultracomputer Research Lab NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:33:00 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3828ACA7.7B376431@mitre.org> "Robert I. Eachus" writes: > Actually, I the more important argument goes to 471.003(2)(c): I did too, the first time I read it, but on a closer reading, I no longer saw that as key. >> (c) Regular full-time employees of a corporation not engaged in the >> practice of engineering as such, whose practice of engineering for such >> corporation is limited to the design or fabrication of manufactured >> products and servicing of such products. This is somewhat ambiguous, but I'm taking the "whose" to mean the *employee* since I think that's the most clear meaning. I'm having trouble understanding the point of this paragraph, but the issue as I see it is that it only applies when the corporation is *not* doing "engineering", but the person is. In the software engineering case, neither the person *nor* the corporation would be doing "engineering" according to the definition of the law, and so that paraghraph would not apply. This seems to cover a situation, say, wher a company is providing some product, like a toaster, and hires an electrical engineer to help design them. This paragraph seems to imply that person need not be a registered engineer, but I don't see why that should be the case.