Mensanator wrote: > On Jan 7, 3:52 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_...@gmx.net> wrote: >> On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:17:55 -0800, Mensanator wrote: >>> On Jan 7, 8:45 am, Terje <f...@usenet.no> wrote: >>>> Is there a web service/API out there identifying Israel owned >>>> software/software companies/web sites/web services? If I am about to >>>> buy a piece of software, but don't want to support the Israeli economy, >>>> it would have been handy if I could just poll a web service to get the >>>> answer. This information should be kept in a database, and be public to >>>> the world through a very simple xml API, something along these lines: >>>> Request: >>>> <nameOfCompany>Some Company Name</nameOfCompany> >>>> Response: >>>> <isIsraeliOwned>true</isIsraeliOwned> >>>> Here's one source for this kind of information (I am sure there are >>>> plenty others):http://www.science.co.il/SoftwareCo.asp >>>> Of course, a web service like this would be equally useful to those who >>>> want to support Israeli companies. >>> Something like that web-service that publishes the names and addresses >>> of doctors who perform abortions so that they can be assassinated? >> Hey, it's about boycott, not killing them. > > One person's boycott is another person's murder. > > It's like they say, guns don't kill people, people kill > people. > > If guns are banned, then databases of such information > should be banned also. > >> Applied to the doctors >> example: You go to someone without a doctors degree, a clothes hanger >> and some experience… ;-) >> OK, that's enough non-Python ramblings for this thread.
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