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I'm sure ISIS uses Microsoft products.

• analognoise 8y ago
  ...probably not with the approval of Microsoft, unlike in IBM's case? Seriously, we all know about this right? There was a book and everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
  • Aloha 8y ago
    I read the book, and Black presented a somewhat convincing circumstantial case. But there was no 'smoking gun'. While its clear to me that IBM had some involvement in supplying hardware - it was also clear to me that this was IBM Germany (Dehomag) not IBM NY - while it was possible that IBM NY did know exactly how the machines were going to used - the book in my opinion made a leap of logic, by simply stating "they had to have known". IBM supplied machines for tabulating, Germany used it for the Census, and for the railways, and it was used in many other occupied territories for similar purposes. To those ends, yes, they assisted in the holocaust - but I'm not at all convinced that the death toll would not have been the same without IBM. In the end, none of this diminishes the technical achievements of IBM, its a side story - one you'd find in many multi-national corporations that existed during the holocaust.
  • IntelMiner 8y ago
    And the Volkswagen was commissioned as the "People's Car project" Coca Cola also invented Fanta to circumvent trade embargos on Nazi Germany Really could go on with this list. But it's not really that interesting or relevant to the actual discussion here
• pests 8y ago
  But does Microsoft send repair techs and knowingly sell replacement parts and consumables?