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by lostcolony 2153 days ago
I was shocked at the number of classmates I had in mine who had no prior understanding of the ethics involved in software. It was clearest when it came to presentations and things; people would take clearly grey areas and try and present them as black and white (so something like DRM wasn't "it's complicated, and companies should weigh the pros and cons carefully, as at best it will inconvenience their users while only delaying a release, and at worst will lead to the pirates having the best experience, and drive their own customers to third party patches to remove it", it was "it's a necessary evil that all companies should use")