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 JLTocher@earthlink.net you are never lost. Your private map where every 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
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