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From Edupage:
THE NEW ETHOS OF THE NET
A professor at St. Cloud University in Minnesota calls for overhauling
business school curricula to stress ethical concerns in the electronic
age the same way they stress finance or economic theory. The end
result? "Information systems will be protected because most people
will no longer be willing to purposefully contaminate a program or
network; they will protect others' confidentiality, privacy, and
copyright as they protect their own; they will refuse to plagiarize,
fabricate, and perpetrate other types of fraud; and they will not
tolerate such activities in others." The alternative is bleak: "...We
will degenerate into secretive, encrypted, overly protective
information hoarders, unwilling to share and disseminate knowledge --
except for profit." (Information Week 2/6/95 p.64)
But, how do you really feel...
John
John L. Tocher THE CITY-a bounded infinity. A labyrinth where
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PGP: CE 72 1A 11 07 47 35 block bears exactly the same number. Even if you
35 9A C1 DE EA 64 21 BC 94 lose your way, you cannot go wrong. --Kobo Abe