> I've really wondered about this. Wouldn't software that acts like a jerk (ie not letting people in etc) be more valuable if it gets from A to B faster? Why th

> I've really wondered about this. Wouldn't software that acts like a jerk (ie not letting people in etc) be more valuable if it gets from A to B faster? Why think that the same pressures that force drivers to act like jerks won't also be applied to software? This makes me think of VW. > Winterkorn blamed "the terrible mistakes of a few people," whom he did not name, for the international scandal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Winterkorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Winterkorn Now, to be clear I am not saying that Google's or Alphabet's CEO should go to jail. Rather the CEO of the company who owns the fleet should. Claiming that they didn't know what their employees did should not be allowed as a defense. Yes, I am still mad at VW for throwing their software engineers under the bus here. I don't know what the solution is but it can't be to just say "well, the software engineers knew what they were doing and they should have said no when told to implement something illegal" (this is what I understand Uncle Bob suggested).