YC is not interested in fixing any of these problem despite their words and actions. Real solutions are bitter pills to this industry, poison pills to investors and venture capitalists.
The two universal solutions that work for every other industry:
* Liability
* Licensing
When I say liability and I mean both personal liability, as in suing the developer(s) for harms of the software, as well as business liability. When I say licensing I do not mean product licensing. I mean human professional licensing. There is an astonishing lack of professionalism and ethics in software. None of this is fixed with band-aids or wishful thinking. Go directly to the problem: the money funnel and the often absurd absence of competence.
Yes, this is scary. Get over it. You cannot both be an entitled child free from the harms of the world and simultaneously be absent from the harms that result. The upside, though, is that increased risk and liability, in financial and compensatory terms, means fewer people doing the work each owning a fair share of the rewards that otherwise just go to investors and not even as dividends.
YC is not interested in fixing any of these problem despite their words and actions. Real solutions are bitter pills to this industry, poison pills to investors and venture capitalists.
The two universal solutions that work for every other industry:
* Liability
* Licensing
When I say liability and I mean both personal liability, as in suing the developer(s) for harms of the software, as well as business liability. When I say licensing I do not mean product licensing. I mean human professional licensing. There is an astonishing lack of professionalism and ethics in software. None of this is fixed with band-aids or wishful thinking. Go directly to the problem: the money funnel and the often absurd absence of competence.
Yes, this is scary. Get over it. You cannot both be an entitled child free from the harms of the world and simultaneously be absent from the harms that result. The upside, though, is that increased risk and liability, in financial and compensatory terms, means fewer people doing the work each owning a fair share of the rewards that otherwise just go to investors and not even as dividends.