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by rjp0008 2144 days ago
Maybe, “don’t be evil”.
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Depends how you define evil. Is advertising evil? Then Facebook and Google engineers are committing evil. Is working with repressive governments evil? Then Apple and Microsoft engineers are committing evil. That's a sizeable chunk of engineers right there.
Some employees at Google certainly see working with repressive governments as 'evil', yes. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/tech...
Well, it would be interesting to see MS seriously attempt to implement such an Oath in their own organisation.

Personally, I hope they do try. :)

What is evil?
That's why you leave it in your motto, where it is _not_ legally binding, as a reminder to try to do whatever you think the right thing is...

Unless you don't.