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How far do you take it?

Don't invest in Apple stock if you're against abortion?

Don't invest in Apple stock if you're against software patents?

Don't invest in Apple stock if you're a member of a socialist party?

If you think what Tim Cook did was right, then you don't understand what a free market is.

Finally, please don't smear people as "deniers" just because they want to have an honest scientific debate. Or do you honestly believe someone like Freeman Dyson is a simple-minded old fool?

http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2151

Employees tweeting they want Brendan Eich to resign because his donation to Prop 8 is not in line with Mozilla's mission.

The mission to build a free and open web has nothing to do with social issues such as gay marriage.

I disagree about Mozilla's future.

What does it matter if Andreas is technically competent when he has to manage activists rather than programmers?!

There are people working at Mozilla today, many of whom are pulling in a decent salary, who believe they are working for social justice charity rather than a technology non-profit.

Firefox is the golden goose but they might eventually bankrupt themselves by spending resources on non-core missions, like the GNOME foundation who had to whip out the begging bowl because they spent all their money on a women's outreach program rather than developing technology.

Quite interesting - they have effectively hacked the marriage system in Massachusetts.

>Kitten, Brynn and Doll had to work with the legalities of the state to get married to each other. As being married to more than one person is not currently legal, they had to combine handfasting, legally binding documents and legal marriage.

A family lawyer drew up paperwork - in terms of assets, wills and legal rights to children - to bind them all together as much as they could without an actual three way marriage.

Will there be repercussions?

For example, will they will be allowed to live together under one roof? A polygamous mormon family who have a TV show have to live in houses next door to each other as the law does not allow them to all live in the same house.

Also since the women are in a de facto three-way marriage, perhaps the campaign for marriage equality should support them?

Anybody know when Xubuntu and Lubuntu will be updated to 14.04?

Is it usually the same day or a few days later?

Never used any of these services... because I had never heard of them until now. Honest truth.

There should be claw-back provisions if an employee don't perform.

A lot of general phone support has been shut down and you are now told to look at the website.

I think the temporary phone shut down during the last debt ceiling government shutdown saga is now permanent.

Or maybe only gray-haired curmudgeons are working on this... CVS is quite a high entry barrier for young trendy Githubbers!

Looks like Google can dish out lifetime App Store bans without any recourse or transparency, and cancel your other services like Google Wallet and even Google Music.

>Who am I?

I’m an indie software developer living in San Francisco. I have a wife and two kids. I have had a long software career since 1990 creating successful apps for MacOS / OS X.

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TL;DR:

Tried to become a professional Android developer. Didn’t realize posting some apps for beta testing would result in being banned for life by Google before even having a chance to get started. I assumed a human would be involved in any banning process and they would clearly see that I was not intending to fool anyone and that my apps were harmless. Consider this before investing time and money into developing for Android. If one of their algorithms thinks you’re a bad guy, you’re banned for life.

Dropbox will have zero impact in China.

Forget the trust and security angle and just look at the local competition - TenCent offer 10TB of free storage!

Google, Facebook and Twitter are all banned in China and there is nothing they can do about it.

How will Apple respond, if at all?!

Steve Jobs promised that FaceTime would be an open protocol... never happened.

AirDrop is yet another closed protocol.

XPC is a new protocol for sandboxed processes to communicate with each other, it's basically distributed objects. Again, a secret even though things like CORBA, Java RMI, etc. have been around for years.

I like the look of Codeplex, very clean design, feels more 'professional' than Github.

Will there be any impact on Rust due to Brendan Eich quitting Mozilla?

How much involvement did he have on the project?

This faux outrage over one man's views, which were hardly extremist given they were shared by 7 million Californians in a vote, has robbed Mozilla of its co-founder. Who the hell is Hampton Catlin to call a boycott? I doubt anyone had even heard of him or his software company.

Message to Hampton Catlin and Michael Lintorn Catlin: if you want to make a brave stand for gay rights, why don't you start protesting outside a mosque or an embassy where under Islam the penalty for simply being gay is DEATH ?

[1] Goodbye, Firefox Marketplace: http://www.teamrarebit.com/blog/2014/03/24/goodbye_firefox_m...

[2] Five Reasons Eich Should Step Down: http://www.teamrarebit.com/blog/2014/03/28/five-reasons-eich...

[3] A Sad Victory: http://www.teamrarebit.com/blog/2014/04/03/a-sad-victory/

Under Islam, the penalty for being gay is DEATH. Beheading, stoning or hanging, depends on how the Sharia court is feeling that day. So why don't all these activists start calling out and protesting outside mosques and embassies?

Perhaps the mob are cowards, more comfortable lynching one man over his views rather than tackling real persecution on a global scale.

They have to be vegan too. Protect the animals!