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To: Springfield Reformer
I'm not trying to trivialize your views either, it's just that if you go down the road of avoiding products from one company because you don't think they are Christian enough, then you might as well stop using all computers as well as the internet. You'd have to go back to the 1980s to find a computer that was completely assembled in the US with US-made components, and it still wouldn't be 100% Christian-made and Christian-supported.

Don't even get me started on software. You won't find an OS or browser that is programmed by 100% Christians here in the US. Plenty of atheists, Indians, Chinese, and others contribute to development of any major software project these days.
111 posted on 01/10/2011 3:25:38 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: af_vet_rr

lol. I think we’re more on the same page than you know. I have two careers, one legal, one software-related, so I know whereof you speak. I am not asking for a perfect world, only one in which Christians do not have go to the back of the data bus.

As for boycotts, I won’t ask you to do this, but if you were to look through all my posts in this thread, you’d notice I’m not actually advocating a boycott per se. Nor am I ruling it out. The fact is, I’m skeptical of whether they’re effective, and I’d like to find some alternate route for solving the problem, and I said as much in my very first post.

As for why the app was rejected, we don’t have to guess why. Apple told the Manhattan people directly. It’s not because the app failed in some technical sense. It is because Apple regarded the Manhattan Declaration, its textual content, not the software, as violating its policy regarding threatening or being dangerous to a segment of the population. I’m sure you’re a nice person too, but please avoid the temptation to rationalize Apple’s misbehavior. It was a political decision, not a technical one, and misbehavior it truly is.


112 posted on 01/10/2011 6:19:04 PM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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