Re: Coals to Newcastle?

[Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:55 AM 10/10/97 -0500, valis wrote:
>=====> Wow, is this our fulsome Billy's idea of philanthropy:
>       donating software and instruction to one of the world's richest
>       and most technically proficient societies?
>       Do we hear it for Vietnam or Nicaragua, or any of the other lands
>       the Pentagon's 7-league boots have plowed?!  And where are Swiss
>       authorities and businesspeople at in even promoting such a caper?
>       Have I overlooked something?


Perhaps only a minor detail, that the word "donating" is used here in a
rather Orwellian manner, denoting its opposite.  In the same vein, Microsoft
"donates" free copies of their Net browser to the American public, hoping to
hook them on their service (just like drug dealers give free samples of
their stuff to school kids).

regards,
wojtek sokolowski
institute for policy studies
johns hopkins university
baltimore, md 21218
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