🚀 go-pugleaf

- It seems like some of us tried to hide behind issues like
  blaming the professor for giving take-home exams in the 
  first place, or drawing an analogy with someone coming to
  our office with the question. But the ethical issue is 
  more like 'what do you do when you ALREADY SUSPECT that the 
  individual is cheating?' (As it turned out, in this case 
  the person claimed they were doing a post-mortem on a 
  previously completed exam.) I believe I mentioned in my
  first posting that had they omitted any reference to an 
  exam, they would have got quite a different reaction from 
  me - and others. 

- The original request also went to biz.comp.services, but
  it didn't provoke any reaction there; I think that says a 
  lot about what nice talkative - not to mention knowledgeable
  people we have here on comp.infosystems!! :-)  

I trust nobody will object to my paraphrasing the newsgroup
and email postings (unattributed, of course) for use as a
sample ethical dilemma concerning computers. 

Meanwhile, does anyone care to define 'firmware' for us?

Regards, 

John Murray