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> one which I won’t name, but the board vendor couldn’t even get a Linux kernel to boot reliably on it when it was shipping to customers Please do! It would be
by dmos62 6y ago
> one which I won’t name, but the board vendor couldn’t even get a Linux kernel to boot reliably on it when it was shipping to customers
Please do! It would be very good to know that your vendor is doing that.
- whatshisface 6y agoThe only reason an engineer wouldn't want to tell us who the vendor is, is if the vendor is their employer. ;)
- loeg 6y agoOr any other form of NDA, which are extremely common in this space.
- qz2 6y agoNo not at all. NDA.
- dmos62 6y agoWhistle blowing anonymously for a technical person isn't complicated.
- kybernetikos 6y agoLots of people would regard it as unethical however.
- dmos62 6y agoWhistle blowing? Isn't it ethical by definition? What could be an example of unethical whistle blowing?
- kybernetikos 6y agoMost instances of whistle blowing are situations where a person has promised not to reveal something and then decided to. Situations like that are necessarily an ethical trade off - the person doing the whistle blowing has decided that keeping their word is less important ethically than revealing the secret but this is a very subjective decision that different people (and ethical systems) can and do have different opinions on.