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>What does any of this have to do with the guy's "morals" or lack thereof ?
>He may be a Republican, which is regrettable IMHO, but he's young and maybe
>he'll come around. Changing a server from UNIX to NT was part of his job.
>Should he have resigned in protest ?
Yep. Consider Microsoft just like nazi Germany: either you
collaborate and get blood on your hands (blood that will never wash
off) or you resist and take the difficult road, but help making this
world a better place.
The unemployment rate was very low in 2000. I would have started
looking for some other job. I certainly wouldn't have been so proud
of selling my soul to the devil, that I'd put it in my resume.
>He still must be interested in and know something about the Mac OS. The
>fact that a guy has stopped using the operating system of a greedy
>corporation, who thinks that it's just fine to have its hardware assembled
>and packaged by Southeast Asian children working 14 hour days, in favor of
>Mr Torvald's little deal is ambitious and ideologically admirable from where
>I sit, even though that's probably not why he did it. It most certainly
>does not in and of itself point to moral bankruptcy.
Singapore and Taiwan are just as rich as the USA, so I don't think
you'll see much poor southeast asian children working for Apple.
Anyway, investing in poor countries and cheap labour will help these
countries to develop themselves. What's bad about that?
And now back on topic!
Long live Apple and long live the Mac OS!!!
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