Alan Coopersmith writes: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > > Be also aware, that IBM supported Nazi-Germany's dead-camps, by > > selling the needed information technology to them: > > It's highly unlikely anyone working at IBM in the late 1930's/early 1940's > is still working there. Blaming the current IBM employees for the actions > of some of their predecessors makes no more sense than blaming everyone in > Germany today for the horrific actions taken by some of the people who were > there 70 years ago. So like Jim, I don't see any real relevance to > current events there.
Actually, that's not quite what Jim was saying. He was saying that he sees no relevance whatsoever to this list, at least at this point in time. I'll leave questions of collective guilt and the historical record for those better equipped to answer them. Fortunately, we needn't resolve them here ... as they're still quite glaringly off-topic. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carl...@sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
