This post is from November. And borders on disingenuous given its call to action, due to the fact that BSA members very quickly made clear their objections to SOPA to the BSA.
Also, I would note that there's quite a difference from being a BSA member and the BSA making a boneheaded decision, vs GoDaddy directly supporting SOPA.
If you boycotted every single company on that list, we'd be stuck using AMD, Linux, and Gimp.
That may work for some people, but not everyone. But more seriously, I doubt that every one of these companies supports SOPA. More digging needs to be done. If someone represents a group of people and makes a statement, that doesn't mean I'm in agreeance to said statement.
I fail to see what the problem is being 'stuck' with AMD, Linux, and Gimp. We we would no longer have the abuse of patents, propriety standards and DRM which in the end would benefit consumers.
Please use the original title (in this case "Which tech companies back SOPA? Microsoft, Apple, and 27 others") rather than rewrite it to suit your personal agenda. In some cases, an article title is ambiguous and needs rewriting, this is not one of them.
1. The BSA supported SOPA. You cannot infer from that the position of any particular one of its members on SOPA. Organizations often take positions that are not unanimous among their members.
2. The BSA changed its mind. This indicates in fact that many of its members are against SOPA.
3. The very first line of the article notes this change.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 29.6 ms ] threadAlso, I would note that there's quite a difference from being a BSA member and the BSA making a boneheaded decision, vs GoDaddy directly supporting SOPA.
That may work for some people, but not everyone. But more seriously, I doubt that every one of these companies supports SOPA. More digging needs to be done. If someone represents a group of people and makes a statement, that doesn't mean I'm in agreeance to said statement.
1. The BSA supported SOPA. You cannot infer from that the position of any particular one of its members on SOPA. Organizations often take positions that are not unanimous among their members.
2. The BSA changed its mind. This indicates in fact that many of its members are against SOPA.
3. The very first line of the article notes this change.