From the 365gay.com story titled “Microsoft, Others Boycotted For Supporting Washington Gay Rights Bill“
When Democrats announced they would reintroduce the LGBT rights bill Microsoft announced it would support the bill. Last week it joined Boeing, Hewlett Packard and Nike in signing a letter to lawmakers urging passage of the measure.
Hutcherson said his call for a national boycott would include all of the companies that signed the letter.
What? Like they’re going to use the alternative to Microsoft? Cos that’s so “pro-family.”
Let’s face it, Apple is faggiest computer company / operating system out there. So what’s the alternative? Well loyal reader Bruce suggested the FreeBSD operating system:
Clearly Satanic. That might pose a problem for “Hutch” as James Dobson calls him. There is another free operating system out there…
That’s right, Linux. Since Central Park Zoo’s Silo has gone all ex-gay Hutcherson will be handing out copies of Linux next Sunday. You can also call 1-800-A-FAMILY and request your free ex-gay edition of the famed “pro-family” open-source operating system.
Aww…from what I hear there are actually quite a few same sex penguin couples at other zoos throughout the world. Besides…isn’t an operating system that’s based on open source and sharing and collaboration and can be used freely a tad too communist, or socialist, or something for that crowd?
I’m surprised you didn’t suggest FreeBSD. Okay…sure that have that little devil as their mascot…
“Besides…isn’t an operating system that’s based on open source and sharing and collaboration and can be used freely a tad too communist, or socialist, or something for that crowd?”
Bruce, it’s Un-American, I tell ya. It’s all a plot to take wholesome Christian American Cowboy values and turn them into a laughable twisted neo-Marxist Communist Homosexual lifestyle.
Thank God we good Christian Americans with values still use of abacus and slide rule just like God intended.
The idea of the the Southern Baptist world of my childhood all going out and buying Macintoshes in hordes is unbearably funny. I’d like to see this one happen, but I wouldn’t count on it.
Apple used to be a rainbow company.
But just look at their current logo and operating system name:
Apple logo and OS box
Sexless, conservative — and exgay.
(OK, I don’t really believe that. But someone might.)
::giggles::
Unfortunately for Mr. Hutcherson, speaking from personal experience I think it’s probably a safe bet to say that the Linux community is as gay-friendly as the rest of them…
Which is to say, most people would probably shrug and say “Great, I’m glad you’ve figured that out about yourself. Now why do I care?”
Besides … if the religious right is so morally opposed to using anything that is at all associated with gay people, what are they doing using computers? It’s pretty well-known that Alan Turing was gay.
(For those who don’t know, Alan Turing is generally credited with formulating the mathematical basis on which all modern computers are built.)
Alan Turing also cracked the German enigma code which was a great accomplishment during the second world war. How did his country reward him? They convicted him with charages of gross indecency and forced him to undergo an atrocious hormone therapy. “Reperative therapy” didn’t start with Socrades.
Ironically, the Nazis had better results in removing same-sex attraction by chemical castration and hormone injections. The best result researchers had in the 50s and 60s in virtually removing any sexual drive was by lobotomy.
Ye Gods….
Ya know, Turing’s life might make a good movie
Ya know, Turing’s life might make a good movie.
You think Heath Ledger can play a computer geek?
Bah! That idiot is giving Linux a bad name! (The Homophobic guy, I mean.)