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Faust wrote:
> Mitch Kapor resigned when he found that his company's software is being 
> used by the Pentagon.

Interesting that you cut off the sentence at that point,
since it concludes with "as part of its development of a
domestic surveillance system".

> This attitude is common and should make Ada fans realise that playing up
> the DOD / military connection will only help to kill off Ada.

Not wishing to take part in domestic surveillance is not
the same thing as rejecting all defense-related work.