Questions tagged [ethics]
Ethics provide guidelines for personal and professional conduct.
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Designing a Distributed System for Indigenous Data Sovereignty Across Nations [closed]
I'm looking for some quick "back-of-the-napkin" thoughts from systems engineers on the following scenario:
A collection of Indigenous groups (in the US, Canada, and Australia) want to design ...
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Question about ethical auto-updates
I'm working on a project which needs to always be up-to-date for my users. It's quite simple to make an auto-update feature, but I need to know how ethical this is.
If, when the user installs the ...
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Is it legitimate to track down a library maintainer who has disappeared? [closed]
There's a public FOSS library available online, which has not seen any commits by its author for about 3 years. 2 years ago the maintainer added a README.md comment saying he's sorry for being ...
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Can one copy their own code from a different company? [duplicate]
Lets say someone has written code for multiple companies that have then copyrighted you work. Another company gives them a similar project to one they have worked on previously. Would it be legal for ...
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Is it ethical for an android application to check if its rival application is also installed by the user?
I was just going through a food delivery application's preferences file where I found that it had a boolean to check if the user has one of its rival's app installed or not. Is it ethical to do so on ...
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Is using Microsoft Hooks an ethical process for getting non sensitive Information
So we have an application that I am not ready to describe in full before we take it to the market, but I will give the details necessary.
We currently have an application that takes a snapshot of an ...
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Is it ethical to adopt other programmer's algorithms?
Imagine I find a completely new algorithm to compute the square root of a binary number (simplification of real scenario) on an internet forum that was an original creation.
Is it ethical for me to ...
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Is it unethical to figure out how much to charge by asking for a quote from another company? [closed]
I've been asked to write a mobile app for a business I have connections with, and I've been trying to decide what I should charge. One thing I came up with was to research what other companies would ...
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Software License which discriminates on 'ethical' grounds
I've spent some time reading the common copyleft and permissive software licenses. Is there a license which allows the creator of an application or algorithm to broadly specify who may use/distribute ...
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Tips for working with badly designed software [closed]
Currently in my job im working with a lot of older php systems which don't follow normalised design patterns and are frankly, a mess.
As an ethical developer and someone who always strives to better ...
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Is it safe to use old code in a new project? [duplicate]
Here is the situation:
While working by company A on project A you developed a very fast and perfect search algorithm.
Then you switched to company B to work on project B which is totally different ...
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Ethicality of online license checks [closed]
Our program has a piracy problem, some people buy a personal license and install it on all the computers in a company. We want to check that only a single instance of a serial id is used at the same ...
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Is it fair to patent workarounds? [closed]
While developing a FAT32 driver for my bootloader, I thought to make it complete by adding the long file name support.
While watching around for some specification, and I also found
articles about ...
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How to avoid being forked into oblivion by a more powerful contributor?
As recently reported here:
Xamarin has forked Cocos2D-XNA, a 2D/3D game development framework,
creating a cross-platform library that can be included in PCL
projects.
However the founder of the ...
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Zero Day Exploit Ethics/Etiquette [duplicate]
What are my responsibilities, as a developer, if I stumble upon a zero day exploit in a widely used third party piece of software?
Should the developer only tell the third party to limit the affect? ...
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