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Discussion on: What should be in the software developers 'Hippocratic Oath'?

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But what is making people better? Is entertaining them in their spare time making them better? Because they're not wasting it? Or is that entertainment numbing their soul and therefor not making them better?

And is advertising always bad for you user? If you get to spend more time making you product better because of the revenue of ads, aren't the ads good then?

Lots of the things mentioned are strongly opionated. And who's going to enforce the rules? The government? I can't speak about other countries, but the Dutch gov has proven to be rather incapable handling anything IT-related.

ad.nl/binnenland/rijk-faalt-bij-ic... (1-5 billion euros wasted per year on failing IT projects)
tweakers.net/nieuws/95618/een-derd... (36% of the projects fail completly and quite a few go over budget)

It's not that I think that an oath is a bad idea, but putting it together in a way there can't be any discussion if something is according to the rules or not, is quite hard...