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From: jasmerb@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Ethics
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Date: 15 Jul 89 01:43:38 GMT
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I was reading an article in the July 11, 1989 issue of MacWeek about 
a disk that Apple had sent to dealers that was infected with nVIR.
The article said, "[your disks] should be checked with a commercial
antiviral program such as..."
I can't believe that they suggested use of commercial programs to fight
viruses. Selling a product to fight viruses seems like the most 
unethical thing a programmer could do. (And for MacWeek to suggest
such a product is another story.) What has happened to our ethics?
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			   |"The problem that I find most distressing is that
Bryce Jasmer		   | people tend to make sweeping generalizations. We
jasmerb@hobbes.cs.orst.edu | all are guilty of this."
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