Use the five-step decision-making process discussed in Chapter 1 of Ethics in Information Technology (book) to analyze the following situations and recommend a course of action.
You have been asked by the manager of software development to lead a small group of software developers in an attempt to reengineer the latest release of the software by your leading competitor. The goal of the group is to identify features that could be implemented into the next few releases of your firm’s software. You are told that the group would relocate from the United States to the island of Antigua, in the Caribbean Sea, to “reduce the risk of the group being distracted by the daily pressures associated with developing fixes and enhancements with the current software release.” What sort of legal and/or ethical questions might be raised by this reengineering effort? Would you consider taking this position?