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