little soldiers - msft

Michael Iott medicinecrow@arq.net
Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:01:55 -0700


Benjamin Minshall wrote:
> 
> I believe Marcel was trying to make the point that MS is using the children to make
> a point that the children do not understand completely.  MS is exploiting the
> charity to a politcal end.  In this fashion, the children are simply tools; their
> position is devalued to nothing more than corporate BS.  It's about manipulation and
> exploitation; obviously, not to the extent of the WWII era.  However, there are
> similarities.
> 
> Just my $0.02
> 
> -Ben
However, none of the children who participated in that laughable stunt
would have been recruited for the Hitler Youth...they would have been
marched off to concentration camps because they were not of the Master
Race. The Hitler Youth were recruited from "Aryan" stock. 
> Marcel Kunath wrote:
> 
> > Somehow this resembles the world of Nazi era? Microsoft recruiting little girls
> > and boys to fight piracy.
> >
> >     http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000726/ca_microso.html
  
Mike ("The Lurker") Iott