I agree it's unlikely that someone at the Pentagon would have interest
in arranging any of this, but we've seen weirder things happen, e.g. at
the Open Technology Fund. USDS has hired many hackers and has been loud
about it.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-biden-digital-service-idINKBN29Q08Q
I believe a former president explained in a recent book of theirs what
the idea was. Cf.
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/7409/2220
Il 03/04/21 05:17, Jacob Bachmeyer ha scritto:
I do not know how familiar you are with ongoing political controversies
in the USA, but there has been considerable controversy over claims of
politicizing the civil service
For this reason, while it's probably unwise to ask any USA federal
authority whether they know about certain actions by one of their
employees/whatever ostensibly conducted in their private time, it might
be fair game to file FOIA requests to find out whether there was any
unseemly coordination or use of government resources. I don't know about
precedents in USA but we regularly have to do this in the EU because the
European Commission constantly conspires with copyright industry lobbies:
https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/article_the_copyright_directive
https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/eeas_letter_to_the_office_of_the
Ideally evidence would be collected *before* launching accusations
against people. Also, MIT was also largely funded by the Pentagon for a
long while, so if we start a tally of how many GNU or Debian
contributors lived under Pentagon-paid roofs the exercise might get
tedious fast.
Federico