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by seanflyon 4239 days ago
So buying a defense contractor and making them no longer a defense contractor is evil because that qualifies as being a defense contractor?
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If the Boston Dynamics division of google are no longer a US defence contractor, then that's news to me. Do you have a link for this?
Now that Boston Dynamics is part of Google they will finish their existing military contracts and then no longer take on military customers.

"Google told the Times it will honor Boston Dynamics’ existing contracts, including a $10.8 million deal with DARPA to develop its Atlas prototype for potential humanitarian use in disasters like the Fukushima meltdown. But Google added that it does not plan to become a military contractor itself."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/16/google_ac...