This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFF747.2AE9EAD8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The act of focusing solely the atrocities of World War II and shunning objective analysis of the conditions and actions that led to them prevent us from understanding them well enough to avoid a repeat of history.. Take your pick.. Either hide from history or use it to understand the present.. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew R Keen [mailto:keenandr@pilot.msu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 5:12 PM To: kunathma@pilot.msu.edu Cc: linux-user@egr.msu.edu Subject: Re: little soldiers - msft 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. -ark > Somehow this resembles the world of Nazi era? Microsoft recruiting little girl s > and boys to fight piracy. > > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000726/ca_microso.html > > Oh and then they got that _generous_ donation of measly 300 thou over _3_ year s. > > I doubt it is even worth to use this as tax write off on the MSFT balance > sheet. > > mk -- |-Andrew Keen |-Keenandr@msu.edu _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list linux-user@egr.msu.edu http://www.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFF747.2AE9EAD8 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">RE: little soldiers - msft The act of = focusing solely the atrocities of World War II and shunning objective = analysis of the conditions and actions that led to them prevent us from = understanding them well enough to avoid a repeat of history.. Take your = pick.. Either hide from history or use it to understand the present.. =
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew R Keen [mailto:keenandr@pilot.msu.edu= ]
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 5:12 PM
To: kunathma@pilot.msu.edu
Cc: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
Subject: Re: little soldiers - msft
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.-ark
> Somehow this resembles the world of Nazi era? = Microsoft recruiting little girl
s
> and boys to fight piracy.
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000726/ca_microso.html=
>
> Oh and then they got that _generous_ donation = of measly 300 thou over _3_ year
s.
>
> I doubt it is even worth to use this as = tax write off on the MSFT balance
> sheet.
>
> mk--
|-Andrew Keen
|-Keenandr@msu.edu_______________________________________________
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