Comment by bigiain

On a tangent here, but...

> The ACM canceled its involvement for excellent reasons which are worth reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815071233/http://www.acm.or...

This jumped out at me from the first para there:

" ... also stating its opposition to licensing software engineers, on the grounds that licensing is premature ... "

I wonder what ACM's current thinking on licensing software engineers is almost 25 years further on?