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Soon, activists will start boycotting Microsoft (gov't agencies use Word and Excel), 3M (gov't agencies use Post-it notes), and Charmin (they also buy toilet pa
by weiming 7y ago
Soon, activists will start boycotting Microsoft (gov't agencies use Word and Excel), 3M (gov't agencies use Post-it notes), and Charmin (they also buy toilet paper).
- adatavizguy 7y agoI've been boycotting Angle Soft for political reasons. Not that anyone cares.
- mises 7y agoWhat is angle soft, and for what political reasons are you boycotting it? Maybe if you provided more info, people would.
- adatavizguy 7y agoIt is toilet paper manufactured by Georgia Pacific a subsidiary of Koch Industries. I don't have a car because I can work from home so I mostly walk or bike keeping healthy although doing it for environmental reasons. I also boycott refined sugar in protest against mismanagement of sugar cane production runoff in Florida. Nobody cares about that either, however, I've lost a ton of weight since and my dentist says that my teeth are perfectly healthy, so there is that.
- Varriount 7y agoOne protests where they can, and where it's feasible. In this instance, they were in a position to turn down a company that not only makes software that is directly used for purposes they don't agree with, but whose CEO has a viewpoint they strongly oppose (in contrast with Microsoft, 3M, or Charmin, which support in a very indirect fashion).
- rtkwe 7y agoBig difference between making general purpose software like MS is and making software specifically for a specific purpose...
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThere have already been calls to boycott cloud providers for providing VMs in the cloud so no, it seems there's little difference in the eyes of some people.