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We could start holding companies responsible for their products as opposed to suggesting they are blameless even in the face of shoddy software.

Right? That'd certainly add economic incentive to quality.

> We’ve already figured out a lot about the structure and composition of good software

I can't satisfy myself with such a teaser. What have we figured out? Pointers, please!

> perhaps only because we haven’t had a sufficiently dramatic incident of this sort yet.

How about Therac 25 and Ariane 5?