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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by ThrowawayR2 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:41PM (#21413504)
> "If a company declares selling computers to the legitimate government of a country is "Just doing business," then, well, that's IBM during the reign of the Nazi party, and history has held them accountable regardless."

Seems more like a historical footnote than any real accountability. IBM is still around and the era where "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" and had a immense workforce occurred well after the WWII era.

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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by shadowgovt on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:56PM (#21413642)
The fact they're noted in the history books as aiding the Holocaust carries a weight to it different than the dollars-and-cents accounting, but if you're interested more in practical effect: they still have to push harder than peer companies to hire because they have a mixed reputation (that younger companies don't have, even if that's merely because they haven't had time to grow one yet).
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