Re: MicroSoft as Slave Master?

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 23:14:15 MDT


I love it! MS, the Evil Empire with Gates as Emperor. Beware
the Dark Side of the Source indeed! :-)

- s.

Phil Osborn wrote:
> I was just talking with a friend who knows everything
> - well, it seems that way, sometimes - and we got onto
> the subject of the prison-industrial complex, how the
> prison guards union is the biggest and most
> influential lobbiest in California, and how so many of
> the telephone sales, etc., are actually handled by
> inmates, at which point he mentioned that one of the
> biggest buyers of prison labor is good old MicroSoft.
> I haven't had time to check this out yet, but it
> sounds plausible. He worked for a long time for a
> major computer sales outfit, and claimed that all
> those nice shrink-wrap packages got that way courtesy
> of people making a buck or two a day.
>
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