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From: B.Witts@ucl-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Ethics of crippler circuitry
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Date: 17 Mar 89 11:29:25 GMT
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From: Bill Witts <B.Witts@uk.ac.ucl.cs>


 >% Webster defines `ethical' as

 >   ... 2: conforming to accepted esp. professional standards of conduct ...

 >  so one could claim that `if everyone does it' it must be `ethical'.
 >  `Ethical' also carries a fair connotative weight.  Best to avoid the
 >  word outside of rhetoric.

Interesting point - if a whole industry is wrapped up as a
cartel, then this presumably becomes the professional code of
conduct .....?

                       ... Bill