Is there a software engineering ethics Comparing commercial and research software engineering

While ethical principles like fairness and honesty may be broad cultural or even universal virtues, many inputs into a professional software engineer's ethical code will be situational, depending on the nature of the engineer's employing institution and the line of business in which that organisation participates. We compare published codes of ethics for employees at Silicon Valley technology companies and at UK universities, to identify the commonalities and differences of the ethical values that guide engineering practice in each category of employer. This comparison represents the beginning of a context-dependent methodology for software engineering, in which practices are recommended based on the distinct properties of the problem domain and the solutions expected therein.