MIT says it won't admit hackers

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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Subject:        Re: [IP] MIT says it won't admit hackers
Author: Vaughan Pratt <pratt () cs stanford edu>
Date:           11th March 2005 4:48:56  PM

By unilaterally denying the accused trespassers the opportunity of any 
judicial review, Harvard may have inadvertently sent the opposite 
message to what they intended.  They have lost sight of the principle 
that ethics serves fairness, not the converse.  By sending the message 
that ethics is paramount, at the expense of fairness, the Harvard 
Business School has created the appearance of being from a different 
planet than the Harvard Law School.

One is put in mind of the small business owner who was inadvertently 
overpaid by a client, and mindful of the commandment "Thou shalt not be 
unethical" drummed into him in business school, concluded that it would 
unprincipled of him to keep this good news from his partner.

With the very institutions that are supposed to teach sound business 
principles confused on this point, no wonder so many executives run 
afoul of the law.

Vaughan Pratt

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