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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by spaced-out on Monday August 10, 2020 @01:09AM (#24105751)
The people who actually decide to do these unethical things are the executives, not engineers. Executives are the ones who should be taking Hippocratic oaths.
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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by austincheney on Monday August 10, 2020 @01:43AM (#24105945)
So? The goal is to eliminate improper behavior not cry about it and point fingers.
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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by throwawaygh on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:20AM (#24107549)
So, there’s always a sucker who needs the cash or health insurance.
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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by TheRealDunkirk on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:08AM (#24109380)
I hope no one wonders why it's been so easy to tie a person's health insurance to their employment in "capitalist US" (as opposed to "communist Russia"), and how frustratingly difficult it has been to affect substantive change now that it's been shown to be exactly as constrictive as it sounds.
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