August 5th, 2008
An apology to the Vietnam vets out there
On July 18, I wrote a post on Microsoft’s search ambitions and how it was an unwinnable war. I made the connection to Vietnam and offended more than a few fine folks that served in that war. I had no intention of doing that but screwed up the following ways:
- I could have just said it was an unwinnable war instead of tying it to one specifically;
- I chose a really bad image to go with the story;
- And I diminished Vietnam by making a connection to Microsoft vs. Google.
For those aforementioned reasons I apologize. I meant no ill will toward Vietnam vets and sorry for any offense. You can follow the feedback here and here and it was fairly unanimous that I was an idiot.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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