Re:GitHub is now free for teams
by DennisAleynikov on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:30PM
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pretty off topic to bring up customers of a lightbulb factory to shame them for selling headlamps to tanks...
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All right, point taken - this is a politically incorrect discussion and we should be self-censoring ourselves.
No, your comment just doesn't make sense. Lightbulb manufacturers are not responsible for wars because tanks have lightbulbs in them, and GitHub is not responsible for all the harm in the world either because some bad actors use GitHub.
Sorry, I can't even discuss this with you. I rather disagree - this is what the whole "military-industrial complex" is about - but it's off-topic and forbidden.
This is totally not what the "military-industrial complex" is about. Wow.
The MIC concept is a specific application of the general idea of regulatory capture of policymakers to the vertical of defence contracting. This is nothing like that: the corporation here isn't a defence contractor and they're not bribing the government. It fits 0%.