IMO, academia is not better or worse -- often they do apply their citation culture to code.
The overall problem is that people tend to think only in terms of first order consequences. A little copying here and there might have minimal financial or reputational risk. But the second order consequences of that becoming the example and the norm for the junior ranks and the next generation causes larger organizational risk. So got to consider the bigger picture and nip the ethical lapses immediately.
The overall problem is that people tend to think only in terms of first order consequences. A little copying here and there might have minimal financial or reputational risk. But the second order consequences of that becoming the example and the norm for the junior ranks and the next generation causes larger organizational risk. So got to consider the bigger picture and nip the ethical lapses immediately.