[mmh0000]

It's weird to me that this is "suddenly" an issue.

It has been known for decades that Red Hat Inc's largest customer is the U.S. Army[1]. It's a very large part of the reason why Red Hat took over development of SELinux and made it on by default in their distros.

And the Army isn't exactly known for handing out cupcakes...

[1] https://unixdigest.com/includes/files/Army-RedHat-Whitepaper...

[1] "Red Hat’s partnership with the U.S. Army spans 10 years starting with the deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2002 and, to this day, the U.S. Army remains one of Red Hat’s largest customers by volume."

[greazy]

Optics. One can argue that Red Hat was working with DoD on just security. But after this white paper on how to better kill people, that facade has fallen over.

Before it was a maybe, now it's certainty.

Ambiguity is quiet comforting.

[scotty79]

Suddenly war and associated killings stopped being theoretical. Bunch of people that used to be as dangerous (in practice) to civilization as paintballers started actually using real weapons on real people.

Military in peacetime is cosplaying (larping?) war. So there's little resistance to aiding them in their silliness. When they actually start to bomb people, it's another story.

They deal was, we aid you in your pretend-wars, but you don't start actual ones. This deal has been violated and people don't abide by that.

[inhumantsar]

I'm sure all the people who died in Iraq and Afghanistan would be glad to know it was all just pretend.

[scotty79]

It's what happens when you stop just playing pretend even briefly, same goes for current debacle in Iran.

No reasonable person tolerates this behavior. When military does that it immediately loses leniency of smart people.

[BoneShard]

haha, larping, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...

[scotty79]

only a tiny fraction of US military is engaged it this kinetic stupidity for only tiny fraction of time, the rest is larping

US military is first and foremost a welfare program for people who chose to not perform any useful economic activity.