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re In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:11:52 +0900
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From: Sidney Karin <skarin () ucsd edu> Date: October 15, 2018 12:29:18 JST To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI Dave, (For IP if you choose.) The U.S. Military is not a murder machine. Lauren’s comment is highly insulting to a very large number of people and is way out of line. Of course Lauren is on the sidelines. The Microsoft employees are in the game, their position is at least equally insulting, to the military and to the nation. …….Sid P.S. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the U.S. (or any other) military, however I have consulted to some units of the U.S. military.On Oct 14, 2018, at 5:45 PM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:Begin forwarded message: 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 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 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." - - - When you've been urging your employees to be ethical, it can be tricky to get them working on murder machines.Archives | Modify Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sidney Karin Ph.D., P.E. skarin () ucsd edu 858-534-5075 Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Director Emeritus, San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
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