>
> Kendall Clark wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I cringe every time I see or hear a progressive -- who
> would never
> > dream of eating factory-farmed meat, miss a WTO protest, or
> back away
> > from supporting the liberation of women, people of color,
> and so on --
> > blithely using Microsoft products, which has seemed to me a
> major
> > no-no since well before Judge Jackson's ruling.
> >
>
In heaven's name, why? Black people, women and animals in factories suffer genuine hardship. Microsoft is guilty of potentially raising the price somewhat of a luxury good, and certainly of depriving some people of IPO potential. Whatever Microsoft hav done right or wrong on the technology front, and whatever the merits of the antitrust case against them, on a global scale, they are completely insignificant doers of harm. And when compared to Eric Raymond and gang, they're not even particularly annoying.
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