This seems like "noble virtue signaling" for software executives.
It isn't taking a five why's approach to the problem of ethical failures in the industry. It won't fix root cause problems.
We don't need a Hippocratic oath for Software Engineers. We need laws and regulations around some things. And then the government needs to penalize C-level execs, the board, and major shareholders for violating them.
The problem is that laws apply to individual without significant financial resources, sporadically to the truly wealthy, almost never to corporations, and never to the shareholders.
Trying to fix a broken system with a "Hippocratic oath" for software developers is like trying to fix school shootings by making sure the doctors will save the school shooters as much as the victims.
Microsoft could still be profitable and fix way more bugs in the software than they do - they choose the higher profit margin over "the good of humanity" all day every day, and it is the executives and major shareholders that make that own that decision.
It isn't taking a five why's approach to the problem of ethical failures in the industry. It won't fix root cause problems.
We don't need a Hippocratic oath for Software Engineers. We need laws and regulations around some things. And then the government needs to penalize C-level execs, the board, and major shareholders for violating them.
The problem is that laws apply to individual without significant financial resources, sporadically to the truly wealthy, almost never to corporations, and never to the shareholders.
Trying to fix a broken system with a "Hippocratic oath" for software developers is like trying to fix school shootings by making sure the doctors will save the school shooters as much as the victims.
Microsoft could still be profitable and fix way more bugs in the software than they do - they choose the higher profit margin over "the good of humanity" all day every day, and it is the executives and major shareholders that make that own that decision.