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Microsoft’s GitHub Employees Still Pushing Back On ICE Contract

By Kevin McLaughlin
· · Source: Los Angeles Times

Employees from Microsoft’s GitHub subsidiary are continuing to voice their concerns over the recent decision to renew a software contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and least one GitHub employee has resigned in protest, the Los Angeles Times reported .  The situation illustrates the difficulties large software companies sometimes experience when integrating...

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