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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by sjogress on Monday August 10, 2020 @04:37AM (#24106919)
> To say it’s on the engineer to do no harm puts them in the tenuous position of doing the job or being replaced by someone who will. That isn’t setting us up for success.

If we were to introduce an oath we would have to take further inspiration from doctors, e.g having a certification required to do the job, or, failing that at least having an industry-wide union/guild protecting the position.

Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by tech2 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @04:59AM (#24118513)
How then do you manage things like outsourcing, or the purchase of overseas companies, or multinational mergers?