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From article <1992Dec21.181059@cs.man.ac.uk>, by mario@cs.man.ac.uk (Mario Wolczko):
> There is one necessary (but not sufficient!) condition which I feel
> must be satisfied by anyone in the computer industry who wishes to
> call themselves an engineer: take full responsibility for your
> creations. 
> 
> If a bridge falls down due to a design error, then the engineer is
> held responsible, and can expect to be sued and/or prosecuted.
> 
> Contrast this with the pages of disclaiming fine print attached to
> software. 
> 
> By this criterion, I do not believe I have ever met a "software
> engineer".  
> 
> Mario Wolczko

If you join the British Computer Society you sign up to the Code of
Practice and Code of Conduct, and your customer could have you
dismissed from the Society if you fail to comply with those codes.
While this does not of itself provide legal protection for your 
customer, I do think that in being a member of the BCS, you are
promising to be a responsible professional, and have certain
standards by which you can be judged (perhaps in court?). 
If the definition of an engineer was someone who could be sued
for their work, we might all prefer to deny being one!

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