Well crap - it used to be that the open source crowd was one of the most inclusive (and fun) groups of people you could ever meet. They would hang out with the far left, the far right, the military, big corporations, black-hat hackers, white-hat hackers, vegans, bikers, etc... etc... etc...
Seems like some of them (at MIT no less) got a big social justice warrior hard-on and are engaging in major virtue signaling. From the preeminent open source file-sharing site GitHub:
Add text to MIT License banning ICE collaborators
The following license shall not be granted to the following entities or any
subsidiary thereof due to their collaboration with US Immigration and Customs
Enforcement ("ICE"):
- "Microsoft Corporation"
- "Palantir Technologies"
- "Amazon.com, Inc."
- "Northeastern University"
- "Ernst & Young"
- "Thomson Reuters"
- "Motorola Solutions"
- "Deloitte Consulting LLP"
- "Johns Hopkins University"
- "Dell Inc"
- "Xerox Corporation"
- "Canon Inc"
- "Vermont State Colleges"
- "Charter Communications"
- "LinkedIn Corporation"
- "United Parcel Service Co"
We will see how well that goes - a lot of large open source software projects are funded by grants from corporations - talk about byte-ing the hand that feeds you...
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