IP: The man makes a good point -- re: : a Code of Consuct for Programmers

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 13:04:45 -0400
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: Daniel Horwitz <dhorwitz@citopia.com>
>Subject: Re: IP: a Code of Consuct for Programmers
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>It's odd that we as a society require certification from the rank and file
>but not from the decision makers.  That the MBAs running the HMOs decide
>what medical procedures people need, not the doctors; the city planners
>decide what bridges should go up, not the engineers; and that business
>managers make the final decisions on software projects, not the
>programmers.  You'd think it would be just the opposite, that managers
>would have to be certified in the thing they're managing.
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>At 12:14 AM 5/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Guess  CPSR wants licensing of Programmers (someone should tell her almost
>all engineers who work on bridges are NOT Professional Engineers.
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> >"You don't want an unlicensed engineer working on a bridge, but you have
>unlicensed computer programmers working all the time," said Dr. Marsha C.
>Woodbury, chairwoman of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility,
>an 1,800-member group that deals with social consequences of computing. 
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> >http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/biztech/articles/03code.html
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