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ICE is on the hunt for a new DevOps company thanks to a software engineer’s protest

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Open-source technology company Chef has finally decided having a relationship with the US government isn’t worth alienating the developer’s community it thrives on. After spending nearly a week defending its decision to continue working with ICE and CBP, CEO Barry Crist today announced the company would not renew those contracts in the future.
This comes on the heels of last week’s controversy wherein Crist appeared ready to die on a hill defending his decision to continue doing business with the government agencies. Now he’s done a complete 180. In a company blog post entitled “An Important Update From Chef,” the CEO writes:

ICE is on the hunt for a new DevOps company thanks to a software engineer’s protest

Sep 23, 2019, 10:19pm UTC

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https://thenextweb.com/politics/2019/09/23/ice-is-on-the-hunt-for-a-new-devops-company-thanks-to-a-software-engineers-protest/ > Open-source technology company Chef has finally decided having a relationship with the US government isn’t worth alienating the developer’s community it thrives on. After spending nearly a week defending its decision to continue working with ICE and CBP, CEO Barry Crist today announced the company would not renew those contracts in the future. > This comes on the heels of last week’s controversy wherein Crist appeared ready to die on a hill defending his decision to continue doing business with the government agencies. Now he’s done a complete 180. In a company blog post entitled “An Important Update From Chef,” the CEO writes: