Chapter
Appendix C: Common scenarios
From InfoTech Governance, Policy, Ethics & Law by David Tuffley
Concepts
- Competitor Secrets
"Often people are hired for a job on the strength of what they have learned working for a competitor. The assumption, often unstated, is that the new-hire will bring specific knowledge of their former
- Unpaid Internships
"It is common practice for unscrupulous employers to hire interns; enthusiastic, usually young developers on low or non-existent salary, on the understanding that the experience they are getting is ad
- Costly Patches
"It is common practice by some software development companies to release defective software to their clients and then charge them to fix the defects that should not be there in the first place. In som
- Client Requirements
"Software development companies with an idea for a software product will often look for a client who is willing to finance the production of the software which will then be sold to as many of the clie
- Confidential Accounts
"Some businesses that accept cash money have been known to keep two sets of accounts; one for the purposes of paying tax, the other to tell the full financial story strictly for in-house use. As a sof