re In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Sidney Karin <skarin () ucsd edu>
> Date: October 15, 2018 12:29:18 JST
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI
>
> Dave,  (For IP if you choose.)
>
> The U.S. Military is not a murder machine.  Lauren’s comment is highly
> insulting to a very large number of people and is way out of line.  Of course
> Lauren is on the sidelines.  The Microsoft employees are in the game, their
> position is at least equally insulting, to the military and to the nation.
>
>
> …….Sid
>
>
>
> P.S.  I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the U.S. (or any other)
> military, however I have consulted to some units of the U.S. military.
>
>
> > On Oct 14, 2018, at 5:45 PM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Begin forwarded message:
> > >
> > > From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> > > Subject: [ NNSquad ] In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's 
> > > Project JEDI
> > > Date: October 15, 2018 0:57:14 JST
> > > To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> > >
> > >
> > > In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on
> > > the US Military's Project JEDI
> > >
> > > https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/10/14/1359239/in-an-open-letter-microsoft-employees-urge-the-company-to-not-bid-on-the-us-militarys-project-jedi
> > >
> > > On Tuesday, Microsoft expressed its intent to bid on the Joint
> > > Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract -- a
> > > contract that represents a $10 billion project to build cloud
> > > services for the Department of Defense. The contract is
> > > massive in scope and shrouded in secrecy, which makes it
> > > nearly impossible to know what technologies Microsoft would be
> > > building for the Department of Defense. At an industry day for
> > > JEDI, DoD Chief Management Officer John H. Gibson II explained
> > > the program's impact, saying, "We need to be very clear. This
> > > program is truly about increasing the lethality of our
> > > department."
> > >
> > > - - - 
> > >
> > > When you've been urging your employees to be ethical, it can be tricky
> > > to get them working on murder machines.
> >
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>      Sidney Karin Ph.D., P.E.
>      skarin () ucsd edu
>      858-534-5075
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>      Professor Emeritus,
>      Department of Computer Science and Engineering
>      Director Emeritus,
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