[Gllug] microsoft its not our fault honest gov

[Tushar Joshi]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:10:24PM +0100, David Damerell wrote:
> On Friday, 14 Sep 2001, Jim Bailey wrote:
> >I know we blame them for just about everything else but can we really 
> >blame them for this?
> [MS Flight Sim taken off shelves because of allegations that WTC
> pilots trained on it.]
> >http://media.guardian.co.uk/attack/story/0,1301,551488,00.html
> 
> No. I mean, this is beyond absurd - even if it was true, that would
> hardly justify yanking the game.
> 
> I could murder someone by driving a car into them (and probably only
> get 6 months for causing death by dangerous driving, but that's
> another issue). We'd better ban driving lessons!
> 
> [Also, why Microsoft in particular? Other people do accurate flight sims.]

I think you are missing the point here. They removed the Microsoft flight
sims off the shelf because they weren't accurate and if you had learnt to
fly a plane using the software you would most likely crash it. As per
Tuesday.

Tushar

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