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> at Microsoft, employees say they don’t want to build technology for warfare Does anyone know what exactly Microsoft is doing with the military? Is this like
by lawrenceyan 7y ago
> at Microsoft, employees say they don’t want to build technology for warfare
Does anyone know what exactly Microsoft is doing with the military? Is this like better image recognition for drone strikes / targeting humans or more like providing operating systems for military administration? Because those could both be technically construed as “building technology for warfare” with only the first choice being the actually bad type of work.
- rudolfwinestock 7y agoBill Gates & Paul Allen originally founded Microsoft in Albuquerqe, New Mexico, in order to be reasonably close to Los Alamos because they wanted to get military contracts.
- wcarss 7y agoThis may not be a disagreement -- but I was under the impression they moved to Albuquerque to work at/with MITS[1], the manufacturer of the Altair, and Microsoft's first customer. 1 -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Instrumentation_and_Telemetry_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Instrumentation_and_Tele...
- revvx 7y agoThe answer here confirms what you said: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=500807 http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=500807
- rudolfwinestock 7y agoI stand corrected.