Re:As an owner of a German car (Score 2)

My German-made car [...] Internet Explorer

Why? Both of them "just work", and provide a combination of performance and reliability that many others can't, all GPL-vs-proprietary religious fanaticism notwithstanding.

And I suppose you don't mind what this German companies did during the '30s and '40s? My mother, when she was a 11 to 14 years old girl, was working as a slave in VW factories (BMW and Mercedes-Benz wasn't any different), while her best friend from school was murdered in a gas chamber in Treblinka. Guess who built those gas chambers and giant ovens? I suppose you are OK with that, because thanks to slave workers and those death facories built for nazis, those companies could grow and as a result they can now make so great cars? Just like the USA and Nigerian slaves were OK, because without the slavery USA would not be so successful, right?

I will tell you something: The worst things Microsoft has ever done is nothing compared to your German car companies. I would rather buy million copies of Microsoft Windows than one smallest part manufactured by one of those German companies, or IBM for that matter, who sold machines to Hitler, thanks to which nazis could find Jewish ancestors of any given citizen up to five generations in the past and send this person to death camps, because having Jew as a great-great-great-grandfather was enough to send someone to death! Maybe you think that only Hitler was evil and every other German was good? I remind you that Hitler was chosen in a democratic election! If you compare Microsoft to BMW, Mercedes-Benz, VW or IBM than you simply don't know what you are saying.

And please don't tell me that there was no holocaust! My mother who is now 72 years old got money from Germans because she could prove to them that she was working as a slave when she was still a child. Do you know how much money has she got? 2000 DEM, which was about 1000 USD! Yes, a 1000 fucking bucks for four years working as a slave being a child without any contact with parents and sister! And she thanks God every day that she was not murdered by nazis, like many of her friends, when they were still children! So please, for the love of God, don't tell me that we can compare VW, Mercedes-Benz or BMW to Microsoft!