In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project 
> JEDI
> Date: October 15, 2018 0:57:14 JST
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
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> In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on
> the US Military's Project JEDI
>
> https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/10/14/1359239/in-an-open-letter-microsoft-employees-urge-the-company-to-not-bid-on-the-us-militarys-project-jedi
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>       On Tuesday, Microsoft expressed its intent to bid on the Joint
>       Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract -- a
>       contract that represents a $10 billion project to build cloud
>       services for the Department of Defense. The contract is
>       massive in scope and shrouded in secrecy, which makes it
>       nearly impossible to know what technologies Microsoft would be
>       building for the Department of Defense. At an industry day for
>       JEDI, DoD Chief Management Officer John H. Gibson II explained
>       the program's impact, saying, "We need to be very clear. This
>       program is truly about increasing the lethality of our
>       department."
>
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> When you've been urging your employees to be ethical, it can be tricky
> to get them working on murder machines.




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