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Could someone explain why this needed to be said? Is there some controversy that I'm unaware of?
by joeframbach 13y ago
Could someone explain why this needed to be said? Is there some controversy that I'm unaware of?
- quasque 13y agoApparently the new CEO actively opposes same-sex marriage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7459529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7459529 EDIT: why the downvotes? This is exactly what lending financial support to the Californian Proposition 8 implies.
- bsder 13y agoBecause the Mozilla Foundation board underestimated the amount of flak they were going to get for appointing someone who is anti-LGBT as their CEO. This is inflamed by the fact that Eich has refused to apologize for this. Therefore, everyone is making the, quite justified, assumption that he believes in his anti-LGBT positions quite strongly.
- davidgerard 13y agoThe amazing thing about this whole kerfuffle is that, apparently, LITERALLY NO-ONE AT MOZILLA realised that this would be THE STORY. They appointed Brendan Eich CEO and LITERALLY DIDN'T ACCOUNT FOR THIS IN ANY WAY. If they had the slightest awareness of their environment, they would have started the softening-up PR months ago, when he started moving toward the CEO role. They could have had everything nicely calm. But no ...