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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by ipsum2 on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:02AM (#24105409)
Depends how you define evil. Is advertising evil? Then Facebook and Google engineers are committing evil. Is working with repressive governments evil? Then Apple and Microsoft engineers are committing evil. That's a sizeable chunk of engineers right there.
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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by onion2k on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:51AM (#24106346)
Some employees at Google certainly see working with repressive governments as 'evil', yes. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/tech...
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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by justinclift on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:09AM (#24105456)
Well, it would be interesting to see MS seriously attempt to implement such an Oath in their own organisation.

Personally, I hope they do try. :)

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