What happens if your #2 is applied to doctors, car/ship manufacturers, food producers, grocery stores, house builders, taxis, restaurants, software engineers, medical device producers and so on? Every profession caused accidental deaths.
"Legal action" against bad decisions is a must. However, mandatory prison sentence for accidents is a terrible idea.
I'm happy to see that the article doesn't have any BS that I have to ignore. It's a simple page that only tells the 'required' story. As a reader, I want more people to cut the crap about 'blah blah blah' and get to the subject.
you didn't work for a competitive software corp. did you? to me, all three are wrong.
-Regulations? if you are good, you can do anything you want. you are powerful. regulations are there to stop dreamers. dreamers are stopped in startup world a lot harsher.
-Permissions? only around %2 of employees work on that. actually less. do you think those kind of systems are worth the effort? (works! done.)
-Avg worker age? this is simply not true. the acquihires we had, were older than my -corp- team avg.