Re: What do your competitors do?
If the result is that companies test each others' products and publish the vulnerabilities they find, then that's a win in itself.
But to my mind the likeliest reaction would be a huge decrease in using prewritten software and an increase in big companies, who can afford it, writing their own special-purpose proprietary software from scratch. If it never gets deployed anywhere public, it won't be tested, therefore the vulnerabilities are much less likely to become known.
Of course it will probably be way buggier than code that has been deployed and used publicly, but hey, at least they'll be able to certify it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
