[email protected] via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote in <[email protected]>: |>> Personally I'm quite happy with the existing terminology, and see no |>> particular need for change (as close to meaningless as the terms are |>> in this context - they are well established, anything different will |>> just create confusion). |>> |>> |>Couldn't agree more. I don't understand what problem such a change in the |>terminology is supposed to solve. | |It is not as if the slave terminal was suddenly free. | |I'm much more worried about the millions of slaves in Qatar, Africa or |China.
Well, here i do have to speak up and say, yes!, but very very much of the (loan-) slavery is induced and used by first world western companies, and not all build at least infrastructure like Ford did for the rubber plants in South America a hundred years ago. And be careful with China, given the hundreds of thousands of deaths and enforced revolutions and all that the western alliance caused after having faced rather minimalistic terroristical attacks. This has to be brought on the table then, it was swept under the carpet in the western media, if it ever saw light, that is. But all this is surely off-topic. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
