Mighty Microsoft

This is a bit harsh, but Microsoft's caving to a local evangelical minister's demand that the company withdraw support for a Washington state bill banning discrimination against gays and lesbians is mighty pathetic. I was under the impression that Microsoft was the most powerful organization on the planet. But lo, the mighty fall before Reverand Hutcherson.

Does Ballmer really think this is the end of it? Now that they've caved to a Redmond megachurch minister, do they really think that the religious right won't build on this by demanding the company itself stop offering benefits to same sex couples?

I say, Ballmer, call their bluff. Say the radical clerics mount a successful boycott of Windows, where else do they go? Something tells me Apple also offers progressive benefits to their employees. And Linux? Well, they're Scandinavian, aren't they? 'Nuff said. So let them boycott. Stop using computers altogether. The religious right want to take us back to the 19th century socially. Let's applaud their decision to go back there technologically as well.