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> Then Google bought them, trashed them, and dumped the remains. This seems to be a too oft repeated refrain. Google has become such a mire of intra-office pol
by pharke 6y ago
> Then Google bought them, trashed them, and dumped the remains.
This seems to be a too oft repeated refrain. Google has become such a mire of intra-office politics that being acquired by them is almost a guaranteed death sentence.
- Ygg2 6y agoGoogle is the new IBM.
- andromeduck 6y agoIBM at least had the maturity not to freak out at anything resembling a defense contract.
- jamiek88 6y agoLike in 1939? They sure fulfilled that contract.
- candiodari 6y agoIn case somebody doesn't realize what this is about. IBM helped governments execute government programs. In 1939, IBM helped the then German government, the Nazi government since 1933, among other things with their new task of "ethnic identification", determining who was Jewish and who was not (because they had complex rules about that involving ancestry). They continued doing this during the war, ... and during the "trial run" holocaust by the German and Austrian Youth Services, then the continuation of that trial run by the psychiatric institutions ... and then with the actual Holocaust. They used a Polish subsidiary, run by a Nazi (owned 90% by IBM), in case you were wondering how they did that without being convicted of treason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust