Improving Software Practices

Making software bugs as fatal as hardware bugs would have made software near perfect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo1diE6FZv4

I.e. every time Windows give BSOD, a programmer should be executed.

Se also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_responsibility

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The difference between free and non-free software are government supported laws. If free software gets even remotely challenging to the government, it will be banned outright, under some unrelated motive. Just like you have your free speech tuned down under various motives, like political correctness, copyright and graphic material.

To bring down free software, you can just increase patent expiration time and grant a few patents to something like linked lists.

When you have law machine under control, you can do anything you want. Look how quickly Putin's regime has stripped shareholders of their property, transferring it to the government functionaries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder#Conflict_with_the_Russian_legal_system