Evan Kahn@kicad response to this is illuminating.
It seems that they're proud to be taking money from / promoting a defense contractor.
If FFX is reciprocally proud of using KiCad and being part of an open-source organization that serves a global audience, how about they post about what they're building with it? Just to clear the air.
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Attached: 1 image I went to download KiCad 9 stable and saw the big "far field exploits" badge on their donation drive since they're matching donations. Ok, so it's some infosec thing, wireless stuff maybe? I click on the badge and get this shit. You can't really stop your open source project from being used by these types, but you don't have to accept them as a sponsor and advertise them.