Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote: On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Ben McIlwain wrote:
Seconded. Companies choose who they want to do business with all of the time. It's not illegal by embargo laws to sell small arms to many countries in the Middle East, but most American companies absolutely refuse to do it.
There's a difference between selling *arms* (i.e. things that can be used to kill people and blow shit up) and selling, say, *encyclopedias*.
Yep, we're well into strained analogy territory here. And nobody, as far as I'm aware, has suggested we stop "doing business" with Answers.com, rather that we don't advertise their product: one for which they're engaging in some unpleasant software patent litigation.
-- Matt