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The Jurassic Park Problem & Software Development (Part 3)

How you can (should?) use them to guide your work In the previous parts one and two we covered the basics of what possible, ethical and legal looks like in software development and looked at 4 challenging scenarios. To finish up, in this part we will try to wrap everything up by giving some suggestions for how you can work on getting “is it legal to build this” and “should we build this” to be…
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The Jurassic Park Problem & Software Development (Part 2)

What happens when the forces are not aligned In the previous part of this three-part article we had a look at three aspects of building software: is it technically possible, is it ethical and is it legal. In this second part we will look further into some conflicts of interest and what can happen when our three powers don’t pull the same way. Finally in part three we will suggest how you can move towards…
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The Jurassic Park Problem & Software Development (Part 1)

Can we, are we legally allowed to and… should we? A lot of the big achievements and progress in human history comes down to someone asking “I wonder if I could…” and gently, or harshly, bending a few direct or indirect rules. If we always played it safe, who knows how many of our species’ innovations we would have missed out on. A lot of these tries end up not being technically feasible (at least…
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Reacting to change – Pair-blogg #2

Photo by Ross Findon on Unsplash Background In case you haven't read about my pair-bloging idea before, a short summary from the first post: A while back I asked on Twitter for people who would be up for pair-blogging. The idea was that we agree on a topic and a date and then we each write a post about that topic. We publish on the same date and promote each other’s posts.  I approached Arlene Andrews to pair…