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Re: Am I the only one who finds this offensive?

From: Paul Baumgartel <treegarden_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:04:47 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20040325030447.50495.qmail@web13422.mail.yahoo.com>


With all respect, Mogens, I'm assuming that neither you nor Mladen experienced the Nazi occupation, having been born after World War II. No offense may have been intended, but in my opinion, the post revealed extremely poor judgement and a great deal of insensitivity.

Paul
--- Mogens_Nørgaard <mln_at_miracleas.dk> wrote:
> Both Mladen and I are from countries that had the pleasure of real
> German occupation. Not that it can be compared in any way to the
> sufferings of the Jews, Gypsies and other groups during the war, but
> that's the history we both grew up with. No offense was intended from
>
> Mladen, except of course to the developers of the world :).
>
> Mogens
>
> Paul Baumgartel wrote:
>
> > I've not been paying a whole lot of attention to the list today,
> but I
> > just ran across this:
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com>
> >>Sent: Mar 22, 2004 9:31 AM
> >>To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> >>Subject: Re: Controlling developers is like herding cats
> >>
> >>Yes, that's true. One thing to remember when talking about
> developers
> >>is that work liberates, or in German: "Arbeit Macht Frei". Good
> >>organization is the final solution of the developer problem. Of
> >>course, I'm a DBA, in case anyone had any doubts.
> >
> >
> >
> > Making jokes about concentration camps and the Holocaust is really
> > going too far, IMO.
> >
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