Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract

Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract by whytaka on Friday February 22, 2019 @07:46PM (#19230709)

But surely, people who want to work for defence contractors can and will.

And if you were working for a company that wasn't a defence contractor, but is becoming one, you can yell and shout if you think it might deter the company and let you stay where you like staying.

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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract by CapricornNoble on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:23PM (#19230928)

"And if you were working for a company that wasn't a defence contractor...."

Do you have any idea how many decades Microsoft has been getting millions in income from the Pentagon? The whole DoD runs on Microsoft products. Windows. Office. Outlook. Sharepoint. Access. All of that stuff has expensive licenses and enterprise support contracts.

Any employee who joined Microsoft after, say, 1995 and thinks they weren't joining a "defense contractor" is just willfully ignorant.

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