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Related: About this forumMicrosoft, Apple Unite to Demand That the National Organization for Marriage Boycott Them
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-wooledge/microsoft-apple-unite-to-_b_1394821.html?ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay%20VoicesREDMOND, WA -- Longtime marketplace rivals Microsoft and Apple Corporations came together to hold a joint press conference today to demand that the National Organization for Marriage commence boycotting them both, effective immediately.
A spokesperson for Microsoft said:
Amidst all the "Dump Starbucks" mania, it appears many have lost sight of the fact that Microsoft Corporation, just like Starbucks, stood proudly with Washington United for Marriage to support equal treatment for all loving couples in Washington state.
and Apples' comment:
Though Apple's stock is doing very well, we still are a little envious that Starbucks' stock shot up $1.41 the day after the announcement of the National Organization for Marriage's boycott, and it continues to rise. We all appreciate a stock bump.
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Reports are also surfacing that Google, Nike, American Apparel, Concur, Group Health, RealNetworks, Vulcan Inc., and Alcoa are considering joining the growing coalition of companies who are asking that they, too, be included in the National Organization for Marriage's holy boycott campaign. In 2010 Google began compensating their coupled LGBT employees for the added tax burden that the Defense of Marriage Act creates.
(Post by me- hit 'em where it hurts)
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Microsoft, Apple Unite to Demand That the National Organization for Marriage Boycott Them (Original Post)
w8liftinglady
Apr 2012
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zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)1. At the bottom
NOTE: This piece is satirical. All quotations are fabrications for the purpose of satire.
Worthy of the Onion I'd say.
saras
(6,670 posts)2. NO!!! It's an attack on Linux and free software!!!
The Tea Party BELONGS with Microsoft. EXCEPT for gender issues, they think the same about nearly everything else.