Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
by pnw_hazor on Friday February 22, 2019 @06:58PM
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You have it backwards. Computers, software engineering, networking, cryptography, wireless digital comms, and so on, were made for war. It so happens they turned out to have some good peacetime applications too.
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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
by dba7dba on Friday February 22, 2019 @07:31PM
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Computer, internet, CPU, and pretty much a lot of modern tech was created/refined out of funding by and for armed forces.
I find this news to be incredibly ironic.
And I disagree with the demands, just in my personal opinion.
We have real, powerful enemies that would love to dethrone US as the dominant nation. Those who demand this restriction for working on military contracts have to seriously consider this.
Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
by SllX on Friday February 22, 2019 @07:43PM
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After looking at what happened with Google, never even mind this, I think we need to seriously consider having the military taking the Apple approach to systems: own the whole damn widget, or system.
If private sector workers can regularly get their private sector companies to pull out of US military contracts, we have a problem.