Mozilla is not a normal company. It is an activist organization. Mozilla’s primary mission isn’t to make money but to spread open-source code across the globe in the eventual hope ofpromoting “the development of the Internet as a public resource.”Posted on 04/07/2014 7:04:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The self-absorption of some on the left prevents them from even the most elementary shoe-on-the-other-foot perspective on the intolerance at Mozilla. Writing in a New York Times blog, Farhad Manjooo thinks it is fine to cater to the intolerance of those who see opposition to gay marriage as deserving loss of livelihood. This case is in his thinking different from, for example, the 1950s, when racism and sexism were rampant, and the Hollywood blacklisting of communists (long held up by the left as a national trauma that must never be forgotten).
Like all software companies, Mozilla competes in two markets. First, obviously, it wants people to use its products instead of its rivals’ stuff. But its second market is arguably more challenging — the tight labor pool of engineers, designers, and other tech workers who make software.
When you consider the importance of that market, Mr. Eich’s position on gay marriage wasn’t some outré personal stance unrelated to his job; it was a potentially hazardous bit of negative branding in the labor pool, one that was making life difficult for current employees and plausibly reducing Mozilla’s draw to prospective workers.
Let’s apply this logic to the 1950s when many racists would not do business with or work in a company that hired blacks. By Manjoo’s logic, they should not have been compelled to do so. Catering to bigots can make business sense.
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Well shoot. They almost might as well be an arm of Google.
Oh jes, with his “seven sisters” housing behind photo from SF. This entire commentary is explained by that alone— he’s a homosexual. And Manjoo is what derivation? Don’t think it’s hindi.... he’s moooslim. And they don’t have any homos, according to their leaders-— imagine that from the religion of peace that loves women so much they hate them.
The entire piece is a joke of self congratulation and falsehood, and textbook material of history repeating— the nazis were full of homos (even after the night of long knives)- it was a pagan boys queer club of violent insane cultist statists. No Christians(Protestant or not) or Jews, gypsies, Poles, Romanians etc. allowed.
What an ironic name for this dude, Man Joo. Farce if it wasn’t real.
And the Jews and many others DID support the wrong party. The whole development in Germany and Soviet Russia a concoction of just such politics. Time for a re-read of “In the Garden of the Beasts”
Sure enough. Anyone notice that mozilla launch page is advertising Mozilla for Android application. How long before Google acquires the client Mozilla. And then, thanks to previously unmapped data mining— the takeover of the US will be complete (partnered with similar tech-dicatators). It’s like Google is the Stasi of the coming New World Order. Key word— Order.
Noted. See #15.
I’ve seen this movie before.........it doesn’t end well..................
What do you mean "almost". When somebody accounts for more than 50% of your revenue, and they don't NEED you, they OWN you.
In their perverse universe a person could be Lesbian or Gay and still not Queer. And vice-verse.
BTW, the "queer" movement actually agrees in a way with social conservatives in that they believe gays shouldn't marry. They believe that no one should get married. I believe that when they speak out about this they tend to get shouted down by the gay mafia.
Perfect.
Mozilla should be perfectly free to dismiss their CEO if his or her views don’t fit the company’s image. Just like Hobby Lobby should be perfectly free to offer an insurance plan to their employees in line with the owner’s religious beliefs.
Let the market decide whether each of the companies did the right thing.
> What is this Q all about?
The Q is for queer.
Those are people who exhibit mannerisms of the opposite sex without engaging in homosexual relations.
First look who he works for, the paper that would report where Ann Frank was hiding.
Second, the brown shirts WERE QUEERS. Look who put Hitler in power.
To the extent I know I do not use Google. They are far too autocratic for me.
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