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Stories like this make me thing that we should have some legal basis for telling the suits to fuck off. Professions like aircraft pilots and medicine doctors do
by praptak 16y ago
Stories like this make me thing that we should have some legal basis for telling the suits to fuck off. Professions like aircraft pilots and medicine doctors do this.
- Goladus 16y agoI think there is, the problem is the severe imbalance of funding power between a publisher and a developer. Also some care has to go into writing the contract. It's possible the language in the contract didn't require the publisher to provide the code. In this case, the developer should have been able to sue the publisher and renegotiate the contract. But I suspect that wasn't economically feasible.
- praptak 16y agoI agree about the importance of the contract but that is not what I had in mind. No contract can force a surgeon to operate using a self-forget cutlery set. In some countries everybody has the right to refuse dangerous work. My fantasy was about the right to refuse work that goes outrageously against state of the art.