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10.06.2009 4:05pm EDT
(Olympia, Wash.) Microsoft Corp. has donated $100,000 to the campaign supporting more partnership rights for Washington state gay couples.
That’s the largest single donation in favor of Referendum 71, which asks voters to approve or reject a new law that expands domestic partnerships for gay and lesbian couples. Microsoft is based in Redmond.The “approve” campaign committee, called Washington Families Standing Together, has raised about $780,000 overall, and spent about $200,000.
The “reject” campaign, called Protect Marriage Washington, has raised about $60,000, and spent about $35,000.
Is Windows 7 out yet? I’m all the sudden motivated to grab a copy.
In all seriousness, companies know the value of customer loyalty. Count me as one of them.
Very good news. Thank you, Microsoft.
I seem to remember the same Microsoft doing a flip-flop on a gay issue a couple of years back. I hope they’re not stupid/cowardly enough to repeat that mistake. It’s also funny to imagine the gay-haters all swearing to boycott Windows—picture them all switching to Linux in a desperate attmept to avoid a sodomy-friendly operating system.
I don’t think MS is supporting this because of customer loyalty, since they treat their customers with all the disdain they can muster from my experience as both an individual and corporate customer.
I think their real motivation is to make the state where 20,000 or so of its employees are located an attractive place to the best and brightest potential employees. Anecdotal evidence shows that tech companies attract a higher-than-average number of GLBT people. It only stands to reason that, if you want fabulous software, you need to attract fabulous people.
Drewski: That would be hilarious. Especially since the Linux community is extremely left-wing both in terms of how it views intellectual property and how it views social issues.
random i know but, i have never even seen a linux computer, no clue what it looks like or runs like lol.
Christopher Emery: Linux can run on basically any hardware. Interface-wise, Linux can look like Windows, a Mac, a Solaris machine or pretty much anything else, or be completely unique, depending on the user’s preferences.
Heck, I know people who only use the terminal in Linux (or use a graphical environment only so they can have more terminals) because they’re more comfortable with it.
Good for Bill Gates (especially for his wife, Melinda). We need every penny to win this one. For that matter, we need every penny to win all our Civil Rights.
Respectfully