July 28, 2008

Computer World: Shilling for Cuba's Castro Inc.

Don Tennant, editorial director of Computerworld and InfoWorld:

"The more I think about it, the more annoyed I get. There's just something fundamentally wrong when a U.S. company isn't allowed to compete in a market where the rest of the world is free to benefit from commercial engagement and entrepreneurism."

And what U.S. business is suffering from lack of trade with Cuban entrepreneurs? Poor little Microsoft! It's all the fault of the U.S.; no mention at all of any obstacles imposed by the dictatorship standing in the way of all that Cuban "entrepreneurism." [sic]

"When we left Vietnam, we thought it was lost forever. Now it is an ally. Later, Libya was a threat, and with the same leader as back then, they are now considered our ally," the reader wrote. "Yet after four and a half decades, our obstinacy has prevented us from [engaging] one of our closest neighbors and has prevented our companies from benefiting from the changes that have occurred there. We are truly the last bastion that has failed to recognize that the ghost of Khrushchev is gone."

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Posted by Ziva at July 28, 2008 02:51 PM



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The "ghost of Khruschev" may be gone, but the Castro boys are still very much alive and walking around and ruling Cuba with an iron hand. And since when did trading with the enemy become acceptable? Would (do) these bozos do business in, say, North Korea? How about with butchers like Mugabe in Zimbabwe? Why not target Mexican drug cartels, too? They could probably find a use for computer technology.

Sorry, Computerworld; some things are just more important than your bottom line.

Posted by: Paco [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 28, 2008 03:10 PM

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