, as company employees and outsiders have protested and called for contracts to be scrapped.
"I want to be clear that this decision is not about contract value — it is about maintaining a consistent and fair business approach in these volatile times," Crist wrote."I do not believe that it is appropriate, practical, or within our mission to examine specific government projects with the purpose of selecting which U.S. agencies we should or should not do business. My goal is to continue growing Chef as a company that transcends numerous U.S. presidential administrations.
Chef had been working with ICE since 2015. Scobie says that originally, the Department of Homeland Security was using Chef's open source software before becoming a contracted customer. "There's lots of opinions about both the correctness and the business relationship and also the ethics and the moral angles to it," Scobie said."One of the things we value at Chef is to have open, anonymous dialogue, and that's certainly something we attempted to have on this particular topic."Before yanking the Ruby Gems, Vargo said that initially, he explored options for changing Chef's software license.