Subject: Re: IP: Wal-Mart PC, Operating System *Not* Included: $399 (fwd)
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org,>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/22/2002 14:56:50
[ On Friday, February 22, 2002 at 12:04:25 (-0500), Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: IP: Wal-Mart PC, Operating System *Not* Included: $399 (fwd)
>
> A professional _should_ have a certain ethical responsibility,
> irregardless of what the consumer does. If the market only had good
> products, the companies would not die, consumers would choose among
> those just as they now choose among crap.

Actually if that professional is a registered Professional Engineer in
many jurisdictions, at least in North America, then he or she _must_
adhere to certain ethical responsibilities.

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