[LINK] Defence dumps Windows XP

Tom Worthington tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
Tue Feb 26 09:08:02 AEDT 2019


On 24/2/19 11:55 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote:

> 'We Refuse to Create Technology for Warfare and Oppression: Microsoft
> Workers Demand Company End  (U.S.) Army Contract ... 
> https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/23/we-refuse-create-technology-warfare-and-oppression-microsoft-workers-demand-company

The US Defence Department was a major Microsoft customer decades before 
the HoloLens.

As I tell computer students, it is better to work out what you are 
ethically prepared to work on before you take the job. 
http://www.tomw.net.au/basic_ict_professional_ethics/


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