In the sake of ethics, I as a senior software engineer will not recommend release of the product next week. It is because it is an unethical when giving someone to use a defected product. It may expose the user to danger. In this situation, the end user of the product is the staffs at the hospitals. When we say about hospitals, it involve human being and people lives. A slight mistake done by the doctors or nurses will give harm to the patients. It also will lead the person who made the mistake to be subjected to heavy punishment and of course it also will affect the hospital reputation.
Furthermore, the inventor of the product will be in trouble as they will be blamed on their malfunctioned product which cause lost of human lives. The reputation of their company also will be affected and it is a bad thing if happened to a start-up company.
There are another way they can be competitive in the market such as the inventor of the product can fix all the errors in their products and make sure it works well. Of course it will take some time and perhaps the other company will release the similar product and be the “first to market”. But, the inventor can take opportunity to come up with an improved version of the product which are already in the market. This also can make the company competitive enough in the market without giving harm to anyone.
In conclusion, releasing a product which have many errors is not a good practices and it is unethical. It also will give harm to the user especially when the one who will use the product are human being.
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