>I think Castro is just doing his part in the expanding war on terrorism and
>enforcing the US trade embargo at his end.
>Charles Jannuzi
Joanna Bujes responds:
>Banning computers is hurting >Cubans and the chances for a
>post-Castro socialism a lot worse >than it's hurting U.S. trade.
One has to wonder if the computers that are used have legally licensed software on them or not. I'm sure MS is monitoring the situation.
Well, when the US stops banning the import of Cuban sugar and cigars, or when it allows me, as a US citizen, to go to Cuba (for example, to a conference) without facing a fine if the State Dept. finds out, then I'll rush to condemn the Castro regime.
The US has subsidized the devastation of an entire ecosystem--the Everglades--which benefits the US sugar industry, when free trade would mean the water could go back to nature.
With or without computers, post-Castro socialism doesn't look like it has much place to go anyway.
Charles Jannuzi