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    Converting from Microsoft will not save your soul

    The Inquirer has an amusing piece about far right US Christian ministers and their urges to boycott a number of Operating Systems... most of them, in fact. Windows must be boycotted because of Microsoft's support for gay rights legislation, apparently, but we're running out of alternatives.
    Apple was damned by religious conservatives last year for being associated with a logo of a two-horned red devil. The devil is the logo of the FreeBSD Unix upon which Apple’s operating system is based.

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    Linux remains an alternative, as it is sufficiently far away from the demon Unix not to be noticed, other than by SCO lawyers. But apparently the Christian Right also dislike any software that contains Wizards and Daemons, so it sounds like it is back to a pen and paper for those who wish to follow such religions.
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    He was also miffed that Apple uses what it calls the Darwin code. Dobson said that Darwin didn’t believe that the world was created in seven days and was also a bad guy.
    Who actually does believe the world was created in 7 days? I thought that had been disproved ages ago .

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    But how many thousands of years in a heavenly day?

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    Well, any respectable PC user will base his choice of OS on what they want out it not on the political rights or wrongs...

    For example, I use Windows XP Pro, not because I'm scared to use Linux but because I'm a gamer at heart and practically all games are made with Windows in mind (although more and more games are being designed to work on Linux, and that Wine app as well).

    NOTE: I'm not afraid to use Linux, it just doesn't do it for me...

    EDIT: Yes I am a bit unholy of mind (refer to sig and avatar ) but that does not mean I'm blinded to common sense and rationality...

    Just some disgruntled American Christians wanting some attention seeing as Muslims get a lot of airtime over there what with all "suspected Islamic terrorists".
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Inq
    But apparently the Christian Right also dislike any software that contains Wizards and Daemons, so it sounds like it is back to a pen and paper for those who wish to follow such religions.
    makes me think of that christian brand toy store - entertainer, who boycotted harry potter for him being a wizard or suchlike.
    there are some very odd ppl in the world

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    Quite amusing

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    rofl thats funny... religious people always come out and criticise the smallest things...

    computer games create murderers to...
    urge to kill....rising...

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