Antipodal shock
Don Gotterbarn · ACM SIGCSE Bulletin · 2005
Recently I heard a consultant in the South Pacific discuss a product for developing better software. Later investigation, unfortunately, showed that he had not discussed some of this product's obvious and potentially harmful defects. As I thought about this incident, I was struck by how much harm a lack of candor about a product's failings can do to unsuspecting users, and how inconsistent this failure to warn of potential problems was with professional ethics. I was also reminded of how self-defeating this sort of behavior can be.