Re: NJ wants to license programmers

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From: J Eric Townsend
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1991 04:41

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In article <46549@netnews.upenn.edu> yee@mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu (Conway Yee) writes:
>Ok, I'll bite.  What's the problem?  Licensing merely mandates a minimum
>level of competency.  Many other professions have licensing procedures
>for exactly that reason.  Would you prefer to be treated by a doctor who
>did not have a license to practice medicine?

I would prefer to have the *choice*.  There are research biologists
out there I trust more than my local doctor...

Also, there's a difference between "licensing" and "not allowing
those w/o a license to practice".

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