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It's weird to me that this is "suddenly" an issue. It has been known for decades that Red Hat Inc's largest customer is the U.S. Army[1]. It's a very large par
by mmh0000 6mo ago
It's weird to me that this is "suddenly" an issue.
It has been known for decades that Red Hat Inc's largest customer is the U.S. Army[1]. It's a very large part of the reason why Red Hat took over development of SELinux and made it on by default in their distros.
And the Army isn't exactly known for handing out cupcakes...
[1] https://unixdigest.com/includes/files/Army-RedHat-Whitepaper-February-2014.pdf#:~:text=Red%20Hat%20and,customers%20by%20volume. https://unixdigest.com/includes/files/Army-RedHat-Whitepaper...
[1] "Red Hat’s partnership with the U.S. Army spans 10 years
starting with the deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in
2002 and, to this day, the U.S. Army remains one of Red Hat’s
largest customers by volume."
- greazy 6mo agoOptics. One can argue that Red Hat was working with DoD on just security. But after this white paper on how to better kill people, that facade has fallen over. Before it was a maybe, now it's certainty. Ambiguity is quiet comforting.
- scotty79 6mo agoSuddenly war and associated killings stopped being theoretical. Bunch of people that used to be as dangerous (in practice) to civilization as paintballers started actually using real weapons on real people. Military in peacetime is cosplaying (larping?) war. So there's little resistance to aiding them in their silliness. When they actually start to bomb people, it's another story. They deal was, we aid you in your pretend-wars, but you don't start actual ones. This deal has been violated and people don't abide by that.
- BoneShard 6mo agohaha, larping, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States_in_the_21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
- scotty79 6mo agoonly a tiny fraction of US military is engaged it this kinetic stupidity for only tiny fraction of time, the rest is larping US military is first and foremost a welfare program for people who chose to not perform any useful economic activity.
- inhumantsar 6mo agoI'm sure all the people who died in Iraq and Afghanistan would be glad to know it was all just pretend.
- scotty79 6mo agoIt's what happens when you stop just playing pretend even briefly, same goes for current debacle in Iran. No reasonable person tolerates this behavior. When military does that it immediately loses leniency of smart people.