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"As an aside, one silly thing that tarnished Mozilla's brand for me was the treatment of Brendan Eich. I may not agree with his donation of money but I think im
by sjellis 9y ago
"As an aside, one silly thing that tarnished Mozilla's brand for me was the treatment of Brendan Eich. I may not agree with his donation of money but I think impinging on his rights is a far more fundamental immorality than what he was accused of."
It wasn't about his rights as a private person. It was that he gave a non-trivial amount of financial support to a campaign to remove rights from other people, which did not seem consistent with the values of the non-profit that he wanted to publicly represent as CEO.
- BrendanEich 9y agoFlat wrong on "remove rights". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14845509 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14845509