> The Brendan Eich situation I'm going to repeat what I said about Eich in another thread: Mozilla built a brand around openness and the idea of "putting peop

> The Brendan Eich situation I'm going to repeat what I said about Eich in another thread: Mozilla built a brand around openness and the idea of "putting people first" and making them feel "empowered, safe and independent." (Those quotes are from at least one version of their mission statement.) Eich's backing of the anti-gay-marriage initiative was a PR problem for them in a way that it might not have been for many other companies. Also, he violated the first rule of holes (i.e., when you're in one, stop digging); it's possible they might have been able to do effective damage control without booting him if his initial response hadn't been, in so many words, "it's my money and I can do what I want with it." And, sure: it is, and he can. The CEO of a nonprofit Catholic hospital chain could also use their money to donate to Planned Parenthood. But, if they did, we can be reasonably sure the hospital's boards of directors would have words with them about it. As for the others, well: > Baker calling a former conservative employee's views "traumatic and damaging" in their obituary It sounds like he was not merely conservative, but extremely strident and pushy about certain things. Also, you're giving that obituary a super reductive reading, given all the nice things Baker also says about the guy despite their obvious disagreements over those views. > The removal of "meritocracy" from the governance document in the name of D&I Some might argue that this kind of nitpicky language monitoring is an awfully unimportant tiny hill to die on. Maybe so, but it's hard not to see "I must take a stand in defense of phrasing changes I probably wouldn't have noticed if this blog post hadn't made a point of calling them out" as, well, an even smaller and less important hill, isn't it? > Promoting BLM and anti-racism content If someone is truly offended by "anti-racism content," I'm gonna have questions about them. > Recall Michael Jordan's reason for staying away from politics, "Republicans buy sneakers too". Just for the record: he's donating $100 million to Black Lives Matter.