Could you reduce the power consumption by just optimizing the most critical parts? If yes: Not doing it would be waste in my view. Is writing or playing a game waste? No (in my view).
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Yes
I think software engineering has reached this part of professionalism at many places. There, these specific codes of conduct are already in place (DO-178b, IEC 61508, ...).
But software is reaching more and more places and the barriers are lower every day. I believe that we need the discussion about ethics across all layers of professionalism.
This manifesto is of course not enforable. But it is meant as a basis for discussion.
That is exactly our intention. We want every one to think about and reflect his or her own values. We believe there can't be the single one truth for all. But the real danger is, where people don't think at all about what's right or wrong.
What we encourage to avoid is "collecting everything, just in case..."
As long as you anonymize things, analytics are fine :)
I just saw that someone posted our manifesto here. Thank you!
If you have any questions, please ask me here. I will try to answer them.
Best regards, Nils