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Re: NJ wants to license programmers

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From: Josh Yelon
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1991 23:35
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It seems to me that the validity and reasonability of this bill
depends upon what one is allowed to do without a license. Here are
some scenarios in which I can imagine that a person might wish
to perform "software engineering" without a license. Which of
these would be illegal under the conditions of this bill?

1. I write a 1-line basic program because I can't find my calculator.

2. I write a video game.

3. I write a video game and sell it for 20 bucks a copy.

4. I am a geologist, I write a fortran program to track land movement
   over a 20 year period. I use it.

5. I am the same geologist, I give my fortran program to a colleague.

6. I am the same geologist, and I sell my fortran program.

7. I offer to configure somebody's new computer for him, in doing
   so, I edit config.sys and autoexec.bat.

Just asking!

- Josh
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From: jyelon@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Josh Yelon)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: NJ wants to license programmers
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Date: 23 Jul 91 23:35:06 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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