How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995)

Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995) by wavefunction on Friday November 29, 2013 @09:05AM (#6819409)

>>The communist blacklist was merely a list of communists published the Hollywood Reporter

Merely a list! You might feel a little differently in 1950s USA with your name on that list. A list that meant the end of your career, blacklisting by friends and family (even sympathetic for fear of association.)

You're the second person in 24 hours to downplay McCarthyism as no big deal and it's left me scratching my head in wonder. Either y'all are ignorant about history, or y'all are stupid, and I'm not sure which I'd rather admit to if forced to choose...

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Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995) by nollidge on Friday November 29, 2013 @09:32AM (#6819497)

Option 3 is that he was making the exact same point you are, and you failed to notice.

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Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995) by wavefunction on Friday November 29, 2013 @11:35AM (#6819981)

Thank you for pointing out option 3. I jumped the gun and for that I apologize. My reaction to the post was the "merely a list" bit and was definitely half-cocked.

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Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995) by girvo on Friday November 29, 2013 @09:41AM (#6819525)

I thought he was being facetious.

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