little soldiers - msft
Ben Pfaff
pfaffben@msu.edu
26 Jul 2000 17:33:35 -0400
"Andrew R Keen" <keenandr@pilot.msu.edu> writes:
> Wow, you actually compared a corporate sponsorship of an organization that
> helps disadvantaged youths to a tool of a fascist state responsible for
> millions of deaths and atrocities?
>
> It boggles the mind. Equating a PR stunt with Nazi behavior trivializes the
> suffering of the victims of atrocity.
Similarly, equating the sharing of software with piracy
trivializes the suffering of the victims of high seas pirates in
former centuries. Yet I see few people speaking up about that
particular bit of propaganda.
--
"How could this be a problem in a country
where we have Intel and Microsoft?"
--Al Gore on Y2K