There's checking people using your libs downstream (which, admittedly, is quite hard to do) and there's not writing software for cruise missiles. > This can be

There's checking people using your libs downstream (which, admittedly, is quite hard to do) and there's not writing software for cruise missiles. > This can be used for good, or evil, but by whose standard? Your own. The oath is taken by humans, and humans differ in opinion - no one can impose an absolute standard on you, and you follow your oath as you understand it. There's no board to deprive you of your license in IT. > Any such oath is useless posturing, and subject to the whims and pressures of what's in vogue today. It's only as good as the will to uphold it. I think that's what's in short supply among the stereotypical "bro" coders.