Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2001/09/12/we_take_this_minute/

We take this minute for something really important

By Newsforge's Jack Bryar

By Jack Bryar, Newsforge.com

Posted in On-Prem, 12th September 2001 11:45 GMT

You'll pardon me if I don't want to send you another of my usual articles about Linux or Open Source. I'd rather not write about the alleged evils of Microsoft. I don't want to complain about the misappropriation of public intellectual property by private interests and their lawyers. That stuff seems entirely out of place today.

So does a lot of the editorializing about an attack on the United States or on the U.S. economy. This was not an attack on America, although that was certainly the intent. Many, if not most, of the companies hurt by today's madness had headquarters far from America's shore. It wasn't America's economy that was hurt and terrorized - it was thousands of secretaries, salesmen, computer operators, and janitors. Ordinary people trying to make a living. They have been devastated, as have been their friends neighbors and families.

Let us honor the employees and families at:



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