Excuse me while I go patent and copyright some system calls....
/johnny
One could say the same of medicine, energy, farming, forestry, or any older sector of American industry that has been systematically stifled by government.
Software had a good run - it left government so baffled for nearly 50 years that it remained free to grow with little interference. But government wants the same cut it has been getting from older industries, and software is just too lucrative to continue to be left alone.
If we expect to stay employed, we had better start studying for our FCSE (Federally Certified Systems Engineer) exams. :)