Blow right to the gut

[annathepiper]

To say that I am disappointed in the news that the Washington State Senate has rejected a gay civil rights protection bill is a vast understatement.

But what really makes me simultaneously furious and deeply saddened is the news that solarbird relays here: that Microsoft backed out of supporting this bill because of a fundamentalist preacher leaning hard on them. As many on my Friends list are also on hers, y'all will have probably already seen this. But for those of you who are not, there it is.

I didn't get protest emails sent in time, unfortunately. Because of working--at Microsoft. The staggering irony of this does not elude me. Now I am going to have to figure out what to say to convey my sense of deep and utter betrayal, and who needs to hear it.

And it looks like my next laptop computer is going to be an iBook.

Comments

[annathepiper]

Thanks for the link, babe. If there are means out there to let me sync up the handheld with a Linux box, this makes me a bit more inclined to go ahead and do this. (After I finish my editing pass through Faerie Blood, get it printed off, and sent to Luna--because overhauling my computer to that extent right now would be horrendously derailing to my writing. After, however....)

I need to go over the information on what's gone down when I get home tonight and start writing up some angry emails.

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

I should think it shouldn't be a big deal. You might even try dual-booting for a while until you get the kinks worked out.

If worse comes to worse, VMware WORKS. I used it to have a Linux host OS, which ran a WinXP vmware session that connected to corpnet via a Linux firewall.

And for future reference, Star Office is a SOLID product for your word-processing needs. And it saves as Word no problem (as long as you're not doing really tricky formatting), so you can always generate the needed Word files. I like Star Office so much that when I went back to Windows-only, I got it for Windows. It's much less "helpful" than the latest versions of Word, and therefore MUCH MUCH easier to use.

Do post where are also good places to send letters and emails. I write letters as well as give my money, and this is something I feel strongly about. So many of my friends and friends of those friends are affected by this. And even if I didn't know anyone--it's WRONG in my world-view.

[annathepiper]

There are a whole lot of contact names, email addresses, and phone numbers at this link from Dara's post--it's the blog entry where she got the action alert to begin with.

And yeah, I'm aware of StarOffice; Dara's used it, actually, and liked it.