Don't most of those points apply to all of the companies involved? Not defending Huawei here, but basically every tech giant has a bad track record regarding th

Don't most of those points apply to all of the companies involved? Not defending Huawei here, but basically every tech giant has a bad track record regarding these topics. In general it's a very traditional tech worker dilemma: Do I want to get a good salary working on interesting problems that is mostly of interests of big tech companies that make their money via arguably shady means, or do I want to earn an average salary working on boring problems and be 100% sure I have a clean conscience. I'm guessing the approach is to have a quasi-parasitic relationship with the sponsors: You personally stay as little involved with the "bad parts" of the company and try to push the "good parts" forward while also pushing the open source tech forward (hopefully for the good of all humanity). That's how I have seen the relationship between Rust and Github (= Microsoft) play out so far too: Rust is very deeply relying on Github for pretty much everything while a good chunk of the individual team members critizize their involvement with ICE at every opportunity.