| ▲ | heavyset_go 10 hours ago |
| Large tech companies are defense contractors now. |
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| ▲ | AndrewKemendo 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Is there a time they weren’t? Google got their first DoD contract in 2003 from DARPA. |
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| ▲ | stocksinsmocks 6 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Facebook was Life Log, Oracle was Project Oracle. None of the household names in tech are playing straight. |
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| ▲ | nurettin 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| WDYM "now"? Companies that get large enough get contracts. Even apple sold power macs iphones and ipads to us mil. |
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| ▲ | koakuma-chan 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm throwing out my iPhone and moving to Tibet. | | | |
| ▲ | XorNot 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Companies that submit bids for contracts get contracts. You would be surprised at the diversity of size and scale of companies which service defense contracts in particular - very small companies can end up in big supply chains because they're the ones who turn up to make the part. |
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