On 5/1/05, Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The cowardice evinced by MS is staggering in this case. They, like many > in the current national legislature, have vastly overestimated the > numbers of radical right-wing loonies out there. A fundamentalist > boycott of MS products would dent their net by a maximum of 26% in the > US, if the numbers I dug up are valid. > > <http://www.religioustolerance.org/us_rel5.htm> > > But there's another problem with the "boycott MS" stance: For the most > part people who are using MS products already *own* them, which means > the people participating in the boycott would have to stop using their > PCs entirely. Not bloody likely; they have to use *something* to > download all that "perverse" material so they can cluck their tongues > and shake their heads woefully at how sinful *other people* are, never > for once gaining any personal enjoyment from the activity, of course, > of course. > > Thus boycotting MS is a little like organizing a book burning. In order > to burn books you have to buy them (unfortunately no one's done me or > my authors that favor yet), and of course the degree of negative > publicity that surfaces acts as a backlash against the right-wing loony > fringe. It's a corporation's dream -- you literally cannot buy that > kind of advertising. > > MS fouled up. They should have stood firm. But they changed their > position before that ludicrous broadcast that featured (among others) > James Dobson, and so I think were laboring under the assumption that > the fundies were a serious threat. > > -- > Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
Quite right- what were they going to do to carry out their empty threat? Use communist Linux? Hardly! : ) ~Maru Might require them to strain their brains _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
