I don't think the objection is a pacifist one. Two facts (or conjectures maybe) lead to a third: [1] Civilian technology is increasingly critical militarily, s

I don't think the objection is a pacifist one. Two facts (or conjectures maybe) lead to a third: [1] Civilian technology is increasingly critical militarily, sucking tech companies into this market^ [2] The military industrial complex(es) are a global force unto themselves, with a potentially frightening influence on war and peacetime policies... possibly more influence than the banking sector. So... are we going to see SV pivot into a major military income stream? You are what you eat and the military industry is a large plate. There's a lot of daylight between pacifism and an objection to MSFT entering the wider arms producing market. In any case, it's Satya that opens the door to this discussion by calling it a principled decision and stating the principle. Is democracy the only standard? An absolute standard? Do US interests play? Many of the US' allies are not democracies and some of its rivals are not. ^The advertising-espionage dovetail is especially weird and worrying.