danger, will robinson!

there are various efforts underway in different parts of the world to try to regulate software *development* so as to strengthen cartels and corporate dominion over users. those are fundamentally at odds with software freedom: you can't control your computing, a certified professional must control it for you. that would suck.

requiring certified professionals for *deployments* of services for over certain user counts might be a more workable approach. few fields (nuclear generators and avionics come to mind) are highly regulated and carry strict requirements that extend to software used in them, those might be good models to extend less strict requirements to activities that could use some improvement but that don't place lives at similar risks