An open question for me is how much employee pressure actually influences the decision making process at megacorps like this. Is Microsoft genuinely concerned about its employees leaving/striking over this? Are they worried about negative PR from the noise the employees are making? Are they not worried at all?
I imagine Bill Gates isn’t super happy about this perception of his creation. Would he speak out against this? Would that scare away the people making these contracts?
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2019/09/22/ambitio...
The value of their actions seems pretty clear cut.