Found a couple of interesting stories
- Salesforce a major "SAAS" (software as a service - or for the non-techs "cloud" provider) has turned on some of its clients who sell "military style firearms". Their customers who sell such guns include Camping World who spends around $1M with them a year on services and would have to spend a ton more to migrate away from their platform.
https://gizmodo.com/salesforce-bars-...-se-1835122495As the Washington Post first reported, the company’s acceptable-use policy now bars companies from using its technology in the sale of many types of firearms, including semiautomatic, automatic, and 3D-printed guns—as well as many firearm accessories.
- Patagonia. whose fleece vests seem to be popular with finance types in places where its a little bit cooler than Hong Kong, has said they will be applying ethical standards on who can buy their gear and put their corporate logo on it. It is reported that it will not cost financial companies anything other than their egos to migrate from Patagonia some other random bro-ware.
https://qz.com/work/1586523/patagoni...-fleece-vests/Patagonia won’t be supplying any new corporate clients with co-branded products if it feels they aren’t ethically aligned with it, and much of the finance industry evidently doesn’t meet that standard.
Subtle differences between the two cases. The first being scary and the second amusing.