Tim Cook’s editorial in Sunday’s Washington Post titled "Pro-discrimination 'religious freedom' laws are dangerous" is a bold underline on the new Apple. Where Steve Jobs famously wrote open letters on the evils of Flash and DRM, Tim Cook is using his bully pulpit to fight unjust and discriminatory practices in the US and abroad.
It’s not that Apple was socially unaware before Cook. Quite the contrary. Apple began offering benefits to same-sex partners in 1993 (while Jobs was in exile), resulting in a showdown with county commissioners near Austin, Texas who refused to grant a nearly $1 million tax break for Apple’s planned $80 million customer support center. “I cannot in good conscience extend that benefit to them (Apple) because of...
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