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Its also very likely the machines are being run on Linux boxes. Should Linus being losing sleep knowing he aided the NSA in this? Even the very database this system runs on may be an offshoot of the Google BigTable paper. Should Google have never opens sourced the software that eventually became HBase/Hadoop/Cassandra because of the NSA?

A tool is a tool. I don't think Henry Ford should feel guilty for enabling people to kidnap children with greater speed.

ExtJS is widely used on government systems and has been for years. If you want to deploy a rich web application that can handle large data tables with infinite scroll, filtering, sorting, etc., and run it all on IE >= 6 ExtJS is your only feasible choice.

No it doesn't. This issue was raised and thought out long before JSMin, for example in the case of the license that forbade use by the South African military. It's a bad idea.