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Mozilla's mission requires it to serve, and engage into its projects, countries that are still many decades from matching the urban/tech/rich-world consensus on
by gojomo 13y ago
Mozilla's mission requires it to serve, and engage into its projects, countries that are still many decades from matching the urban/tech/rich-world consensus on gay rights.
Indonesia is the world's 4th largest country by population, and the most-democratic of all majority-Muslim countries. It's important. And other countries that should be giant parts of open web projects are in similar positions.
Should open-web advocates from these countries, who in their personal lives express the same sort of political views on marriage as Obama did as recently as his 2008 campaign, be excluded from leadership positions at Mozilla? How deep should the proposed purge go?
- MichaelGG 13y agoIslam also has death as a penalty for apostasy. If Eich supported that, would it be OK because it's a "personal view"? I do agree with you though, that Mozilla's work is more important than civil rights. Eventually, it would seem that all people will give up poor, invalid beliefs. It's a near certainty as technology progresses and definitely disproves religions. However an open web is in quite the opposite position.