Re:Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart (...
by AnthonyMouse on Monday February 09, 2015 @03:54AM
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Developers have to care about market share. Writing code that no one ever runs is tilting at windmills.
A professional organization would have no control over that whatsoever. People have principles. Principles don't come from bureaucracies. Professional organizations are full of politics and politics and ethics are entirely orthogonal.
If anything professional organizations are used to undermine an individual's principles: Economic interests pressure the professional organization to approve some unethical behavior and then anyone who objects to it is pointed to the professional organization's approval and told to shut up and do it.
A professional organization would have no control over that whatsoever. People have principles. Principles don't come from bureaucracies. Professional organizations are full of politics and politics and ethics are entirely orthogonal.
If anything professional organizations are used to undermine an individual's principles: Economic interests pressure the professional organization to approve some unethical behavior and then anyone who objects to it is pointed to the professional organization's approval and told to shut up and do it.