‘No source code for evil’: Developers pressure Chef Software to cut ties with ICE

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Chef developers and executives fought over the company’s contract with US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Faced with this, Chef Software’s management first resisted, but it has now given in to demands to start severing ties with ICE.

With thousands of immigrant children separated from their parents under President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies, the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has made many enemies. At the same time, software companies like Chef Software, the DevOps company, work with ICE. So, when open-source developer Seth Vargo discovered his open-source project, Chef Sugar, was being used by Chef, he pulled his code. And then he and Chef Software both discovered just how much Chef, the program, relied on his library…