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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by erik_seaberg on Monday August 10, 2020 @01:25AM (#24105848)
A bridge is limited to a single purpose, like an appliance. If you insist on veto power over every outcome of what you build, that means you can only ever build sealed appliances for hapless consumers, not unfettered tools that empower clever human beings who will use them in unanticipated ways. Having sworn a Hippocratic oath, are you allowed to work on LLVM, which half of all evil apps probably depend on?

I could get behind a requirement that code be reliable and fit for purpose, though very few of us have any experience with the formal methods that might get us there, and most don't want to work that way.

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