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I don't see that as being very different. Why is him exercising his protected right to political speech in donation form subject to your judgement when it doesn

I don't see that as being very different. Why is him exercising his protected right to political speech in donation form subject to your judgement when it doesn't have any impact on the quality of the software he gives you for free? Did he say "gay people can't use Firefox"?

bscphil 7y ago
> Why is him exercising his protected right to political speech in donation form subject to your judgement Because it has an impact on whether I can marry my partner.
codezero 7y ago
I think that it was less about the end-user as it was about the gay people working for Mozilla who felt uncomfortable working with a CEO who took the actions Eich took in his past. One cannot know peoples' private thoughts or biases, so folks often take what ever signal they can get.
- Polylactic_acid 7y ago
  Its exactly the same as avoiding a company which uses slave labor in some 3rd world countries. No one wants to be funding these actions.
  - core-questions 7y ago
    You're seriously likening the inability of gay people to go through the motions of a marriage ceremony to children being subjected to slave labour? That's the falsest equivocation I have ever read.
    - Polylactic_acid 7y ago
      I'm comparing avoiding a company because of human rights issues with avoiding another company because of human rights issues. Its understandable for a well adjusted person to not want to fund either of these things.
    - modo_mario 7y ago
      >You're seriously likening the inability of gay people to go through the motions of a marriage ceremony to children being subjected to slave labour? That's the falsest equivocation I have ever read. I'm not too familiar with the US and it's laws but doesn't marriage have an impact on legal matters, benefits and taxation? I know for example that here I can't get a higher loan based on a higher percentage of my income because i'm single and the bank is limited in how it can lend out the money it lends from a state entity.

bscphil 7y ago

> Why is him exercising his protected right to political speech in donation form subject to your judgement Because it has an impact on whether I can marry my partner.

codezero 7y ago

I think that it was less about the end-user as it was about the gay people working for Mozilla who felt uncomfortable working with a CEO who took the actions Eich took in his past. One cannot know peoples' private thoughts or biases, so folks often take what ever signal they can get.

Polylactic_acid 7y ago
Its exactly the same as avoiding a company which uses slave labor in some 3rd world countries. No one wants to be funding these actions.
- core-questions 7y ago
  You're seriously likening the inability of gay people to go through the motions of a marriage ceremony to children being subjected to slave labour? That's the falsest equivocation I have ever read.
  - Polylactic_acid 7y ago
    I'm comparing avoiding a company because of human rights issues with avoiding another company because of human rights issues. Its understandable for a well adjusted person to not want to fund either of these things.
  - modo_mario 7y ago
    >You're seriously likening the inability of gay people to go through the motions of a marriage ceremony to children being subjected to slave labour? That's the falsest equivocation I have ever read. I'm not too familiar with the US and it's laws but doesn't marriage have an impact on legal matters, benefits and taxation? I know for example that here I can't get a higher loan based on a higher percentage of my income because i'm single and the bank is limited in how it can lend out the money it lends from a state entity.