Michael has referenced a few news sources that have reported on this. Scoble also voiced his support for measures that, in turn, support gay rights and vowed to raise the issue with Microsoft’s powers that be:
I don’t know anything about it, or anything about how Microsoft decides
to support political issues, but human rights is very important to me
personally and I’m gonna take this up with the leadership of the
company and support this cause.
There is a comprehensive review of this development on AMERICAblog which concluded that "An Apple a day keeps the bigot away". According to Michael, the legislation was ultimately defeated by one vote!
If I were guiding Microsoft’s strategy on this one, I would have pushed for the legislation. If you don’t stand for something as fundamental as gay rights, what do you stand for, aside from bigotry?
What do you think?