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I mean, more than they have already lost. People who have left because they object to Rice's politics, are not going to come back. People who respect Condi Ri
by joeclark77 13y ago
I mean, more than they have already lost. People who have left because they object to Rice's politics, are not going to come back. People who respect Condi Rice (or dislike her detractors) (or are disgusted with the politicization of everything in life) may leave if Dropbox caves.
Same story when Susan G Komen decided to stop funding abortion, then reversed its decision. Same story when Mozilla promoted Brandon Eich, then fired him.
- SmokeyHamster 13y agoI disagree. Dropbox's customer base are techies, and techies tend to dislike Rice's politics. You're right in that Dropbox would get some backlash for letting Rice go, but I doubt much of its current or future customer base would be upset.
- joeclark77 13y agoI think you're making a set mistake. The set of "techies" doesn't as a whole dislike Rice's politics. The set of "people who live around San Francisco and Seattle" dislikes Rice's politics. Elsewhere I think techies tend to lean more to the right... certainly on university campuses the most likely place to run into a Republican is in an engineering department... <flamebait>...probably because engineers have to understand math!</flamebait>