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What if the company is a nonprofit, such as University College London or the Mozilla foundation?

• mcphage 11y ago
  Well, examine the evidence for them—Mozilla, for instance, had no problem with Eich as a CTO, nor had a problem promoting him to CEO. But a sustained negative publicity campaign—from people within the organization, as well as completely unrelated companies like Ok Cupid—and they backed down. In some cases, they might actually be more aggressive about it, since usually they care about something, and so quick to drop things that interfere with that thing. Take World Vision, for instance. They're a non-profit devoted to supporting orphans. They changed their policy to allow homosexual employees—but a campaign from their primarily evangelical Christian supporters cost them millions of dollars in donations, so they reversed the policy after two days. Did they still feel that allowing homosexual employees was correct? Almost definitely. But they cared more about their work supporting orphans, so anything that got in the way was removed.