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I'm saddened to hear about this situation. I have no experience with the "industry," but as someone trained as a scientist I have certainly seen that the scientific culture (and in this respect I would include computer scientists) differs radically from the business culture with respect to honesty and truth-telling. Scientists are sometimes obnoxious, and geekish, and any of a number of other uncomplimentary things, but they are very rarely liars. Even in my university experience I have found that the business culture that manages large parts of universities thinks nothing of using lying and manipulation as a standard operating procedure *within* the institution. (One might perversely say that when dealing with external competitors it would be OK, but not among people supposedly on the same side; but even that restriction is not honored.) Steve Shapin wrote a book a few years ago called _The Social History of Truth_, which I believe discusses the origins of the truth-telling culture ...