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On 04-Apr-14 01:30, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 04/04/14 03:19, Shark8 wrote:
>> On 03-Apr-14 17:43, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>>>
>>> Will it be 2064 before we get government regulation requiring safer
>>> language features?
>>
>> That's a seriously bad idea.
>> Having government regulation would be asking for corruption all along
>> that bureaucratic chain.
>
> *Liability* in software business will suffice.
>
> Regulation, or Law, that would require software to have measurable
> properties, and such that would allow customers to sue.

Customers can already sue.
Suing is a civil action; regulation, by definition, is a criminal case 
(in that of a valid regulation, on the part of the accused; in the case 
of illegitimate regulation on the part of the accuser).

Heck, there's already *criminal* law that covers a vast majority of 
these: fraud.