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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by phil9987 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @03:55AM (#21362373)
"Google dropped out last October without submitting a formal bid, saying the military work conflicted with its corporate principles, which preclude the use of artificial intelligence in weaponry."

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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by mcqueenjordan on Saturday October 26, 2019 @06:23AM (#21362886)
That was the PR spin, but in fact they lacked several of the basic requirements for the contract.
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by stult on Saturday October 26, 2019 @07:42AM (#21363094)
The DoD wasn't going to touch them in any case after they pulled out of Maven
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by jasonvorhe on Saturday October 26, 2019 @07:14AM (#21363039)
Source?
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by mda on Saturday October 26, 2019 @08:28AM (#21363224)
No, after cancellation of maven, it made no sense to pursue it.
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by Rainymood on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:48AM (#21362785)
Only after their employees revolted. Never forget this. Only after the employees spoke up.
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by wolco on Saturday October 26, 2019 @09:59AM (#21363699)
What do we make of the remaining bidders? aws.. the employees would be fired if they revolted. Microsoft the employees didn't care to revolt.

The fact that google employees could revolt and change a big decision says something.

Tons of stories on why google is evil and microsoft and amazon are the toast of the town. I would rather have google in that position vs amazon/microsoft/oracle because there is a soul and heart at the core of google. The core of Microsoft is different same with Amazon.

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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by dragonelite on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:03PM (#21364447)
Didn't Microsoft employees revolt when Microsoft was making some special Hololens devices for the US army?
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by shmed on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:09PM (#21378971)
About 50 people signed some petition (most of them weren't even working on hololens). Not much out of the 120 000 people working at MSFT
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by mav3rick on Saturday October 26, 2019 @03:40PM (#21365730)
They were quickly clamped down even for this contract.
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by steve_musk on Saturday October 26, 2019 @08:58AM (#21363370)
What point are you trying to make? The employees make up the company.
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by baobabKoodaa on Saturday October 26, 2019 @09:20AM (#21363481)
That any perceived moral fibre in Google should be attributed to its rank and file, rather than its leadership?
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by ne9xt on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:52AM (#21362803)
come on... do you really think that's the reason google didn't go after a 10B contract? does google not like money or prefer to avoid working with the US government?? because I think they do...
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by jefftk on Saturday October 26, 2019 @08:47AM (#21363315)
There was a large internal revolt: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/technology/google-pentago...
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by wolco on Saturday October 26, 2019 @09:50AM (#21363651)
10B is not the profit but the entire contract. There is less gravy than it first seems.
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by mav3rick on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:26AM (#21362700)
Thanks for acknowledging this. They did the right thing at least in my eyes.
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