Disclaimer: what I am going to say might be offensive to some, but it has to be said. Apologies in advance to any offended hippie. So google uses the technolog

Disclaimer: what I am going to say might be offensive to some, but it has to be said. Apologies in advance to any offended hippie. So google uses the technology it developed to help the military. So what? How is this different from what has happened throughout history? If you hipsters will take the trouble to pull you heads out of the sand, you will find that everything you use is either used by the military or reuses of military technologies. Linux is used by the military in machines that help in killing people. Will you stop using Linux? The Internet protocols? Microwaves began their lives as military radar components. Will you throw yours out of the window? The satellites that power all you TV, GPS, Uber, etc. Delivered to space based on the work of actual Nazi scientists. The food you eat? The main reason you have it because of Fritz Haber. https://medium.com/the-mission/the-tragedy-of-fritz-haber-the-monster-who-fed-the-world-ec19a9834f74 https://medium.com/the-mission/the-tragedy-of-fritz-haber-th.... The man who incidentally used the same technology to start the era of chemical warfare. And this is just the last century. This same pattern has been present throughout history. The only way to live a morally pure life untainted by things used to kill people is to live like a neanderthal. Not in a silicon valley house typing away on the internet on a MacBook. An impossible task, right? And am I missing the sarcasm in this or people actually believe that putting everything under AGPL will solve the problem? You think google will decline a lucrative military contract just because a piece of code is unavailable. No, they will write their own implementation, while you sulk in a corner in the bubble of your victory. We cannot stop technological progress. If you won't do it, someone else will. Not everyone in the world is high enough on Maslow's Need Hierarchy to think about self actualization. Basic Needs will always come first. A hungry man won't think about the world. He will think about food. Our job as responsible people is to ensure that the people in power do not point this technology at us. Not living in some sort of a matrix of out own creation while ignoring the reality.