I was looking at the old slashdot this morning and ran across this.

So not only do I find the idea obnoxious, i find it just unreasonable. Besides, if say I am accountable, what's gonna happen? Am I gonna go to jail just cause I forgot to end a session or etc? Are they gonna fine me? Hold me accountable for the losses?

I'll tell you what something like this could do.

1. Remove a lot of people from the software industry.

I imigine that a lot of people won't even want to deal with this anymore, so they'd probably find something else to do.

2. Increase the pay for the programmers that are willing to do it.

Since there would be less programmers, then there would probably increase the pay to current programmers.

3. Insurance policies to cover lawsuits.

Just like doctors, this would open up to geting your behind covered by an insurance policy. Good for insurance companies I suppose.

I work for the company, the company owns the code, the code isn't mine. So in this sense why should I be held liable for something that isn't even mine?

What happens when mutlitple people work on something? Say I write something, Brandon updates it, I update it again. Who's responsible?