Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers

Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by fnord123 on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:09AM (#24109397)

I don't understand your argument. Do you think people who follow unethical behaviour are quickly fired? That is not usually the case if the unethical behaviour was profitable. Do you think that the legal system is quick to move so people won't be deported in 60 days?

>At any rate ethics is a hard sell to an industry whose professionals are completely unaware of what ethics are or how they apply.

This is simply not true. Most everyone with a CS related degree in Europe or the US has taken a course on ethics and knows plenty about it.

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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by austincheney on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:46PM (#24111244)

> Do you think people who follow unethical behaviour are quickly fired?

They are fired once the house of cards collapses in epic failure or when a scapegoat is needed. Those are both evidence of systemic failures.

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