BREAD: Town council software review and minister in parliament provide no answer

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

So here too, this is something that is legal, but saying it is legal is not the end of the matter. People at large clearly think it is unethical; thus the controversy.

The ministry’s town council review too makes the same omission, saying again and again that the AIM transaction complies with the law. In fact, the entire report reads as if someone went to town council spokespersons, interviewed them extensively, and wrote up their justifications for what they did. There is not a lot of critical enquiry into what they said.

I even did a search for two words in the 37-page document: ‘ethics’ and ‘ethical’. Both searches resulted in ‘none found’.

The report went some length to play down the value of the obsolescent software that was sold to AIM, thus arguing that town councils suffered no loss. By so focussing on the dollars and cents, the review lost sight of the principle involved.

Indeed, the review doesn’t seem to see anything wrong with selling IP rights to a partisan owner, not only in this case, but in all future arrangements.

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