My software engineering professor had us read the ACM [0] and IEEE [1] ethics codes. I vastly prefer the IEEE code (they both read like they were written by com

My software engineering professor had us read the ACM [0] and IEEE [1] ethics codes. I vastly prefer the IEEE code (they both read like they were written by committees, but IEEE seems like it was addressed to a professional engineer, and ACM seems like it was written to a corporate drone.) Either one of the codes is significantly more thorough than the pledge, which seems focused on a few current issues, making it eventually irrelevant independent of whether its goals are achieved. [0] http://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-code/ http://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-co... [1] http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html