Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoMicrosoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down11
arrow-up18arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’www.theverge.comTony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareMunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoThe fact that they’re asking her to apologize is Just ass backwards. They should apologize, and look into the issue, and possibly, stop, war profiting. That’s okay. They’re going to lose a lot of Windows users, forcing them to upgrade Perfectly good computers.
minus-squarenutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-219 days agoi agree with what you’re saying from an ethical standpoint. i think she’s right to protest. but it’s not “an issue”, it’s a huge fucking client of theirs. from a business standpoint its a huge ask to fire a whole military as a customer.
minus-squareGnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·19 days agoCan’t help but think of this book wrt your comment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
The fact that they’re asking her to apologize is Just ass backwards.
They should apologize, and look into the issue, and possibly, stop, war profiting.
That’s okay. They’re going to lose a lot of Windows users, forcing them to upgrade Perfectly good computers.
i agree with what you’re saying from an ethical standpoint. i think she’s right to protest.
but it’s not “an issue”, it’s a huge fucking client of theirs. from a business standpoint its a huge ask to fire a whole military as a customer.
Can’t help but think of this book wrt your comment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust