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From: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Ethics
Message-ID: <12530@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 15 Jul 89 05:44:18 GMT
References: <11648@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <11648@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> jasmerb@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Bryce Jasmer) writes:
>I can't believe that they suggested use of commercial programs to fight
>viruses. Selling a product to fight viruses seems like the most 

  You've never paid for a vacination at the doctors, you get all your shots
for free??? Who's your doctor??  I'll go to him.

>unethical thing a programmer could do. (And for MacWeek to suggest
>such a product is another story.) What has happened to our ethics?

  I don't see/agree with your point.  They are simply selling a product to
protect the computing public from the doings of a few mentally unstable 
people.  Securtity systems in the home are a similar example.  It would be
nice if people made these programs availible for free, Virus RX from Apple
is an excellent example, but there's only so many resources the industry and
individual's at large can "donate" for the common good, at some point someone
needs to get paid for their professional skills.
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