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Justin Cormack wrote:
On 12 Apr 2006, at 20:25, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:27:49 +0000 (GMT), you wrote:
Wikipedia has a business relationship with a company that is indulging in some intellectual property-related evilness.
What, we use Sun servers? Or is it Microsoft software?
I know a lot of firms which refuse to *buy* from unethical suppliers, but not many which refuse to *sell* to anyone who can't prove they are whiter than white.
I remember talking to a company that wouldnt sell to a security company in apartheid South Africa who were developing an automated security system. With guns. SO it does happen.
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.
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