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Programmer Loyalty

by Ed Yourdon

In the Y2000 field, there is an ongoing debate about the ethical responsibility of IT professionals to resist the temptation to "bug out" and head for the hills. Strong suggestions are being made that good programmers will remain loyal to society, and to their profession, by staying on the job to fix Y2000 bugs right up until midnight on 31 December 1999 -- and beyond. And yet nobody seems to be making much of a fuss about the programmers who quit their Y2000 job in company A in order to double their salary at an equivalent job in company B.

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Programmer Loyalty 1 July 1998

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