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4.22.2005
Microsoft Caves on Gay Rights The Stranger has learned that last month the $37-billion Redmond-based software behemoth quietly withdrew its support for House bill 1515, the anti-gay-discrimination bill currently under consideration by the Washington State legislature, after being pressured by the Evangelical Christian pastor of a suburban megachurch. The pastor, Ken Hutcherson of Antioch Bible Church in Redmond, met with a senior Microsoft executive in February and threatened to organize a national boycott of the company's products if it did not change its stance on the legislation According to some reports Microsoft has backed off its support for an anti-discrimination bill once it was threatened by a national boycott of evanagelists. Boy, who to cheer for in that fight huh? If I was Microsoft I would have laughed at the evanagelicals. What are they going to do? Stop using Windows at work? Switch to Apple products? Install Linux on their home PC's? Many people like myself dislike MS simply because we find it so hard to get away from their buggy and bloated products. I want to see the evangelicals launch their own "biblically friendly" operating system. Still it would have been fun to watch thousands of evangelicals dump their windows PCs and get Macs. Who would have guessed that evengelicals, led by a former Seattle Seahawk linebacker, were such an important market segment for computer software? |
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