Kosher for Passover software

[Shlomi Fish]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> We're in the middle of Passover, and apparently observant Jews who are
> computer users are facing a new problem: a famous Rabbi has just declared [1]
> that during the week of Passover, observant Jews must only use software which
> has been certified Kosher-for-Passover.
>
> How can software possibly contain chometz? And who eats software anyway? :-)
> As it turns out, it's not just that you're not allowed to eat chometz on
> Passover - you're not allowed even to "benefit" from it. Observant jews
> already make sure that during Passover, their dogs eat kosher-for-passover
> dogfood, their toilet paper is free of chometz, and the milk they drink comes
> from cows that hadn't eaten chometz. The new decision is that using software
> which benefited from chometz during Passover is disallowed. And how can
> software possibly benefit from chometz? Easy - Napoleon once said that
> "the army marches on its stomache". Likewise, programmers eat, and without
> food, there can be no software. If programmers ate chometz on Passover,
> and you use this software, you're benefiting from chometz on Passover,
> which is not allowed.
>
> Here in the Israeli software industry we're in a unique position to produce
> kosher-for-passover software, because most of our programmers eat only
> kosher-for-passover food during passover. If we only make sure not to
> accidentally mix-in pieces of chometz software into our kosher software.
> We should especially avoid free software - because much of it was written by
> gentiles who eat bread during Passover!
>

These are live words of God himself. (דברי אלוהים חיים). I'm glad to
announce that the recently announced Freecell Solver™ Enterprise
Edition sports fully kosherness compliance, including Passover one,
making it the world's first Passover kosher solver for Freeecell:

http://fc-solve.blogspot.com/2010/03/01-april-2010-freecell-solver.html

Namely, Freecell Solver Enterprises™ pays the most prominent Kashruth
supervisors hefty sums of money to make sure its software is fully
Kosher, for every copy included. This is reflected in the price of the
premium version.

Cheers and a happy Passover,

-- Shlomi Fish

> Happy holiday!
>
> Nadav.
>
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