CNN notes that yesterday Democratic presidential debate "provided light moments when the audience learned that most of the is available from The Washington Post.
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kind of funny that only al sharpton claims to be a Mac user....
Ordinarily, I'd say that a political candidate's computing platform of choice probably doesn't matter much.
But think of it this way: Microsoft is a law-breaking organization. This is not in question. There have been legal remedies enacted, but anyone who's paying the slightest bit of attention can see that they have had no dicernable effect on the illegal monopolistic practices of MS.
By choosing MS products, these canditates are essentially saying either "I'm willing to buy and use products from a company that flaunts the regulations of the government I'm trying to become the head of." or "I pay so little attention to the dealings of the major companies I buy products from that I didn't know they were breaking the law."
If you ask me, as much as I'd like to see one of these guys become president, that doesn't bode well for the thought that goes into their decisions or the depth of their ethical character.
It's made worse by the fact that the previous Democratic presidency seemed to be actively pursuing a way to reign in Microsoft--a policy theoretically these guys would also be in favor of--while most indications are that the current regime has little concern for what MS does in business.
There is one other possiblity, admitedly, which would be "I realize that Microsoft has and continues to willfully disregard existing US laws, but I disagree with those laws, so I will support them anyway." That sounds like a highly inappropriate sentiment coming from a Democratic presidential candidate, and I don't like the tone of it anyway.
I might also add that to my knowledge, Microsoft STILL doesn't pay any taxes to the federal or Washington state governments, despite making billions in profits--they weasel out of them through creative accounting and passing some of the burden off to their employees. That's just insulting:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/4526.html
http://www.fool.com/news/foth/2000/foth001016.htm
http://eatthestate.org/01-43/HowtoSkip.htm
have no chance because they don't know how to play the game. Sure a few do, S.F. Mayor Brown... but on the whole most of them are clueless.
preferring Windows?
I'M SHOCKED!
Most of them didn't even express a preference, according to the transcript I read...
I'd be surprised if most of the could tell any difference other than "that one has a pretty case." On the republican side we can look to George Bush as an example. He couldn't tell the difference between a country with weapons of mass destruction and a country without.
...thank for that...
At least he's an admitted mac user.
Buncha democratic losers. I'd have been EVEN MORE impressed, however, had one of them said Linux.
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