Suppose your eyesight is failing you and you are going to a clinic to
have your eyes fixed by laser.
If they find that you have retinal degradation in your eyes, you deny
this and insist upon getting laser - what should an ethical clinic do?
Should this answer be any different if the clinic are donating 20% of
their income to hungry children in Darfur, Sudan?
My opinion:
If your client is insisting upon a solution which is, according to your
professional opinion, wrong - you should explain to the client and turn
down the assignment, as ordered by the client. Be careful to do this
only after listening to the client and familiarizing yourself with all
considrations your client had while selecting the solution.
Then, when negotiating with the next client, tell him how you turned
down a lucrative contract which was going to violate your professional
integrity, and explain how your professional integrity will help the new
client make more money from your work than from your competitors' work.
--- Omer
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 18:18 +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> Quoth Gilad Ben-Yossef:
> > Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> > >Quoth Ira Abramov:
> > >>Today I installed a similar setup on a faster machine, host is FC4,
> > >Not that I am casting the first stone, but anyone using FC as a production
> > >machine should have his orchideae removed.
> > The Fedora Core line is a non production distribution *by design*.
>
> Hello, mein kinder.
>
> While both Gilad and yours truly are indubitably and inalienably right, it
> is often that clients in their infinite (the hands - they have a life of
> their own and will not type "wisdom") perversity will ask for such
> wonderful contraptions as RTAI kernel running in RedHat 7.2 distribution
> with Mozilla 1.5 backported into it, the whole thing shouldred a-la the
> Tokya Underground at 7am into a 16MB NAND flash running with a proprietary
> driver (Gilad - we know the culprits, do we not?)...
>
> What should the indie, the consultant, the Gitche Manitou of the right
> solution, do in such a case? Shove the right thing down the client's gullet
> (I did that, it is very trying to shove a 48-node cluster down ANYONE's
> gullet and, truth be told, not very hygienic)? Let the client blithfully
> trundle towards his/her/its doom? Lie outright, say you do this, do the
> other? What?
>
> Jonathan? Gilad? Gil? Shahar? Oron? Danny? Lior?
>
> Marc!
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