> No one has suggested that either the CEO or the Verge is acting out of studious neutrality. If I may quote: "No, he's saying that employees using public foru

> No one has suggested that either the CEO or the Verge is acting out of studious neutrality. If I may quote: "No, he's saying that employees using public forums to call other employees (including former employees) "batshit insane" are not welcome within Mozilla." > But nice and elaborate strawman that you've set up there. No, a thought experiment. For those who figured they could come up with a neutral principle, I presented another situation to apply those principles to. The general reaction was "well, that's different because of the beliefs of the employee." Which is what I was getting at all along: if you work for Mozilla you either toe the line with Mozilla's ideology or at the very least better keep your opinions to yourself, even anonymously on a dusty corner of an Internet message board. If not, the CEO will denounce you in the media, attempt to find out your identity, and if he succeeds, fire you. Brendan Eich wasn't a one-off; he was a model for the future. Now it seems a lot of people are fine with that. And that, in turn, is fine! I'm happy for you: you have a major browser which is only for people of your political persuasion, which is not something everyone gets to say. Those who don't care about the ideology of the engineers who write their applications may be less happy, but I suppose that's our problem.