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Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by tgragnato on Friday May 12, 2017 @01:49PM (#14326129)
> Managers keep making bad decisions because they can always find someone who will write the code instead, but for some reason developers are unwilling to act in concerted opposition to this and so find themselves endlessly ignored and overruled.

A labor union that protects you when you refuse to implement things that should not be implemented?

IMHO it is a difficult thing to manage and integrate into the tech culture.

Leaks? Maybe, we're seeing them.

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Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by anigbrowl on Friday May 12, 2017 @02:52PM (#14326757)
It suits the management class very well to minimize the formation of organizational structures among technologists.

While I'm not a big fan of unions or guilds - insofar as they rely on internal hierarchies that just reproduce existing and faulty control structures - those who resist or deny the possibility of organization among technologists are not necessarily disinterested in the outcome.

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