IT and Ethics

Thomas Hobbess's Social Contract Theory states that: "The society should strive to develop a set of rules that make sense to everyone (making people follow them voluntarily)."

One example to this theory related to IT field is the location of menu buttons (minimize, maximize, close buttons) on the title bar. For Windows they are on the right side, for macOS they are on the left side, and for Linux, they can be on either side varying from distribution to distribution however, on Linux you can choose the location yourself unlike Windows and macOS. All software, even the ones with custom frames (the ones that don't use default status bar) follow the operating system's default, or most common placement.

I don't know which location is the best for these buttons ergonomically and visually, but having them on the same location by default, and giving the users an option to change it on every operating system is the best approach to this kind of problem.