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> > when there's a software bug that painfully hurts a large number of people.
>
> Hasn't it already happened? Toyota comes to mind. I think they got off easy.

How many people do you know who were hurt enough that they "wrote letters
to their Congressman"?  Or insurance companies that charge diffferently
depending on how the software is made.

> blame will be placed everywhere but the real culprits ("software is hard"
  As long as people think "no change in software engineering practices
would help", there will be no change in software engineering practices.