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It is the role of the lawyers to explain their position in layman's terms.

Having programming experience is absolutely not a requirement for understanding the technicalities of what software does. If it was we would see Testers, Producers, Business Analysts, Project Managers etc with programming skills. But we don't. And yet almost every software project has these people deciding, testing and understanding what is being built.




Having programming experience is absolutely not a requirement for understanding the technicalities of what software does

No, but having experience and knowledge about computers in general is required to make a decision on, say, whether a mouse-over event is innovative.

There's a short clip of Feynman describing the problem here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM&feature=playe...

And yes, people are that clueless about "computer stuff" that they could just as well have been from another planet.




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