> Unlike many professions where ethical decisions must be made everyday... we in the software business are often (though not always) engaged in ethically inert

> Unlike many professions where ethical decisions must be made everyday... we in the software business are often (though not always) engaged in ethically inert pursuits This attitude is the real problem. There scarcely exists such a thing as an ethically inert pursuit. I am reminded of a proposal I once read for something like a Hippocratic Oath for programmers: http://glyf.livejournal.com/46589.html http://glyf.livejournal.com/46589.html