Microsoft Reverses Stand on Discrimination Bill

sriram_2001 writes "Bowing to intense pressure both from outside as well as its employees, Microsoft has reversed its stand on the anti-discrimination bill. In a company wide email, Steve Ballmer says that though the Washington legislative session is over for the year, they'll support any such legislation in the future. However, he adds that they'll be supporting it in the US only as they don't want to involve the company in debates in countries with different cultures and value systems. He also says that he doesn't think Microsoft should be involved in most public policy issues." Announcement about the email's release on the Scobleizer main site.

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Yeah, but when Microsoft was evil.....

[LibertineR]

they could ship software on time.

They were not distracted by such nonsense. Diversity never wrote good code.

I would be pissed if my employees were using their email and my bandwidth to discuss Gay rights. The mere fact that this is going on at Microsoft is a very bad sign.

How about more coding, less bitching about how Microsoft feels about what should be someone's personal business. I'm no fan of bigotry, but a corporate workplace is not the place for email storms of this nature.

I wonder how many emails were generated during the same time period discussing how much Longhorn SUCKS?