Module 6-1

If you are to choose your top 3 difficult-to-follow computer ethics commandments, what are these? Explain why.

If I were to choose top three difficult-to-follow computer ethics commandments these would be the 6^th one which states that: “Thou shalt not use or copy software for which you have not paid.” Followed by the 2^nd one “Thou shalt not interfere with other people’s computer work.”, and the 8^th one; “Thou shalt not appropriate other people’s intellectual output.”

 

Thou shalt not use or copy software for which you have not paid.

          I consider this commandment  difficult to follow because licensed software are expensive enough for me to buy, thus there are softwares that we need in class that we can’t afford, that’s why I have no choice but to download those unlicensed softwares in the web in order to cope up with our lessons and for me to be able to do my exercises.

Thou shalt not interfere with other people’s computer work.         This computer ethics commandment is not so difficult to follow yet there are some cases that we cannot avoid doing it. Like for example when I am in a hurry to print the documents that I need for my presentation five minutes after the situation happened, and my brother is using the computer, then, I have no choice but to interfere what he is doing and print my documents, this is because of the situation.

Thou shalt not appropriate other people’s intellectual output.

          This commandment is also difficult to follow because there are instances that we do research and find in the web studies that are related to us, then, we sometimes miss acknowledging them because we are pre-occupied with those things that we need for the said research.