Comment by noisy_boy
6 days ago
> Perhaps also on the software engineer who testified repeatedly under oath that the system worked fine, even as the bug tracker filled up with cases where it didn't
I don't think you needed to ask for agreement.
6 days ago
> Perhaps also on the software engineer who testified repeatedly under oath that the system worked fine, even as the bug tracker filled up with cases where it didn't
I don't think you needed to ask for agreement.
Partly on account of the "perhaps" in the original, and partly because I have seen (elsewhere) "just doing his job" defenses.
In corner cases, culpability for uncertain expertise can be a tricky issue - you may recall the case of the Italian geologists, a few years back, indicted for minimizing the risk of an earthquake shortly before one occurred - but the case here seems pretty clear-cut (again, I'm speaking morally, not legally.)