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<section id="sec-title-slide"><h1 class="title">Ethics:</h1><h2 class="author">Dr Carey Pridgeon, Dr Nazaraf Shah</h2><p class="date">Created: 2020-06-12 Fri 12:59</p>
<section id="sec-title-slide"><h1 class="title">Ethics:</h1><h2 class="author">Dr Carey Pridgeon, Dr Nazaraf Shah</h2><p class="date">Created: 2020-06-23 Tue 12:03</p>
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<li><a href="#/slide-org805f1c9">Ethics</a></li>
<li><a href="#/slide-org27f881f">Ethics</a></li>
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<h2 id="org805f1c9">Ethics</h2>
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<h2 id="org27f881f">Ethics</h2>
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<h3 id="org9a7166c">Where Did Ethics Come From</h3>
<h3 id="org9577d97">Where Did Ethics Come From</h3>
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<li>A precise origin is unclear, but we are aware of where it got refined, <b>Greece</b>.</li>
<li>In Ancient Greece the goto guy for ethics or ethos, meaning specifically
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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates">Socrates</a> also did some good work in the field of ethics, but didn't write
anything down, leaving that to Plato instead, then he got into trouble by
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<li><a href="https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Kindi/">Al-Kindi</a></li>
<li>Known as the father of Arab philosophy, and also a polymath (I couldn't fit
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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Farabi">Al-Farabi</a>, <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-farabi-soc-rel/">ref</a></li>
<li>Yet another polymath, these people just keep popping up, don't they. He wrote
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<li>He has also been claimed to be a scientist, although this term didn't
exist at the time.</li>
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<li>You studied BCS Ethics in the second year of your degree. That was business
ethics, a specific branch of the subject, and one required if you are later
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<li>Why this matters is because while you need customers to 'buy in' to your
product, you also need your developers on board as well.</li>
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<li>Organisations like the Free Software Foundation take Ethical computing to an
extreme, claiming <b>no</b> code should be written in exchange for money.</li>
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<li>I'm not saying they should be paid directly for any specific code, such as the
code in the above example, but organised oversight and error checking/testing
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<li>Mozilla is set up in a way similar to this, except they do have a <b>secret</b>
branch of code, with security aspects they don't share.</li>
<li>Similarly, their final build comes from a codebase inaccessible to any but
internal developers, nd they fold in code from the publicly available code. I
internal developers, and they fold in code from the publicly available code. I
can understand why they do this perfectly.</li>
<li>Given the current climate, with cyber crime being so prevalent, I can't see
any reason why an Open Source company would share <b>all</b> of their security
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<li>Open Source is claimed to be <b>more ethical</b>, but what does this mean?</li>
<li>I think they say this and hope people will just accept it as <b>not as bad as
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<li>The term <b>ethical</b> is too often used without really understanding what it
means.</li>
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<h3 id="org2602cce">Ethics and Open Source</h3>
<h3 id="org1b9b781">Ethics and Open Source</h3>
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<li>You'd <b>think</b> Open Source would require that all software written using this
label had to be <b>ethical</b>, yes?</li>
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<h3 id="org5337306">Brief Case Study: What if No Military Application Was Allowed?</h3>
<h3 id="org64e0e91">Brief Case Study: What if No Military Application Was Allowed?</h3>
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<li>Right now there are an estimated 110 million anti-personnel mines in the
ground.</li>
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<li>20,000 people are killed each year by landmines. <b>Bosnia and Herzegovina</b> is
so heavily covered in mines whole regions are inaccesible and may never be
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<li>Plus any advances would be available to the military. I can't see how this
would be a bad thing myself, they should clean up after themselves, and it
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<li>Further reading</li>
<li><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241209540_Ethical_issues_in_open_source_software">Ethical Issues in Open Source Software by Frances S. Grodzinsky et al</a></li>
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<h3 id="org57b37dc">Obligatory XKCD</h3>
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<h3 id="org9b7a19f">Licence for this work</h3>
<h3 id="org6e7aacb">Licence for this work</h3>
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<li>Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
International by Dr Carey Pridgeon 2020</li>

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