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I find the revival of interest in his political donation since his rise to become CEO a little ridiculous. When I first found out, I was shocked and maybe even
by sspiff 13y ago
I find the revival of interest in his political donation since his rise to become CEO a little ridiculous.
When I first found out, I was shocked and maybe even a little upset. But I don't see him using Mozilla to advocate his own political beliefs, and I find his argument of "checking political and religious opinions at the door" when going into Mozilla good enough.
I don't see why we have to make such a big deal out of his personal opinion, as long as we don't have any indication that he'll be using his position at Mozilla to further his political agenda.
If we start hearing about gay men being refused to work at Mozilla under suspicious circumstances, or other such abuses, then I'll be outraged.
- voicereasonish 13y agoAnything related to gay marriage has become totally "good vs evil". There's no middle ground, no nuanced arguments. If you're against gay marriage, then you're obviously a homophobic religious gay bashing evil hitler. I'm glad he stood up for what he believes in and put his money where his mouth was. If only more people (on all sides of arguments) did the same.
- zimpenfish 13y agoI don't think it's become that and I don't believe he's "a homophobic religious gay bashing evil hitler". I do believe it's a mistake promoting a contentious[1] person to CEO since that's pretty much guaranteed to cause a PR shitstorm like this. [1] Allegedly three board members quit because they wanted an outside hire instead of Eich (unrelated to the Prop 8 issue).
- momentarily 13y agoSJWs will find a problem with absolutely anyone and anything. You can never please SJWs. The only winning move is not to negotiate with them at all.
- zimpenfish 13y agoFor me, this paragraph is worrying - For Mozilla, it's problematic because of our principles of inclusiveness, because the Indonesian community supports me but doesn't have quite the megaphone. Which comes across as "the lurkers support me in email[1] and y'all are just bleating because you can". But like I said in another comment, I have relatively little skin in this particular game. [1] If you remember Usenet.