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Article #1440Ethics
From: Bryce Jasmer
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1989 01:43
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1989 01:43
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I was reading an article in the July 11, 1989 issue of MacWeek about a disk that Apple had sent to dealers that was infected with nVIR. The article said, "[your disks] should be checked with a commercial antiviral program such as..." I can't believe that they suggested use of commercial programs to fight viruses. Selling a product to fight viruses seems like the most unethical thing a programmer could do. (And for MacWeek to suggest such a product is another story.) What has happened to our ethics? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |"The problem that I find most distressing is that Bryce Jasmer | people tend to make sweeping generalizations. We jasmerb@hobbes.cs.orst.edu | all are guilty of this." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!orstcs!mist!jasmerb From: jasmerb@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Bryce Jasmer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Ethics Message-ID: <11648@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 15 Jul 89 01:43:38 GMT Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Lines: 13