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Posted on 04/05/2014 4:49:51 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
NY Times: Mozilla CEO's 'Anti-Gay' Stance 'By Definition Disqualifying,' He Needed 'Rehabilitation' By Tim Graham Created 04/05/2014 - 6:59pm
Our web guru Steve Edwards passed along a tweet from Moe Lane that said "New York Times confirms: Open Source advocacy is for liberals/progressives only. "
Lane linked to an obnoxious blog post by Farhad Manjoo in The New York Times titled “Why Mozilla’s Chief Had to Resign.” You see, “Mozilla is not a normal company. It is an activist organization.” And activists apparently find it very distasteful to be less than “militantly tolerant,” as Manjoo put it:
Is this an instance of political correctness run amok? Is it a sign that Silicon Valley has become militantly tolerant, unwilling to let executives express their personal viewpoints on issues unrelated to their jobs? I’ve seen many such worries expressed online; even supporters of same-sex marriage have been characterizing Mr. Eich’s ouster as an awful precedent for giving in to moralistic mob rule.
But it’s a mistake to draw any such conclusions in this case, for one simple reason: 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 of promoting “the development of the Internet as a public resource.”
As such, Mozilla operates according to a different calculus from most of the rest of corporate America.
The company serves two markets, not just one, and the second market is “arguably more challenging — the tight labor pool of engineers, designers, and other tech workers who make software.” They have an ideology that must not be broached:
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.
This became clear in a string of tweets and thoughtful blog posts that Mozilla employees (a.k.a. Mozillians) published this week. A number of them called for Mr. Eich’s resignation. One employee in Britain, Paula Le Dieu, put herself on “unpaid leave” in protest. Others stopped short of calling for Mr. Eich’s ouster but expressed frustration that Mozilla was being tarred with his views, and hope that they could rehabilitate Mr. Eich’s ideas about gay marriage...
“He is actively harming Mozilla by not making a proper statement on these issues and making things right,” wrote Ben Werdmüller, a Mozilla developer.
In other words, those "thoughtful Mozillians" believed Eich apparently needed to undergo "conversion therapy" and become an "ex-Anti-Gay," and then he would be "rehabilitated."
Manjoo bizarrely thought that this Mozilla mutiny is "slightly more nuanced" than liberals cry Negative Branding and get out the (career) guillotine. Imagine if the CEO were a gay activist who'd donated a mere $1,000 to support gay marriage and it ruined the "unit cohesion" of the company:
In such an environment, it isn’t out of bounds to consider how a certain leader’s political views might affect employees’ passion for their mission. If the community’s cohesiveness is Mozilla’s primary advantage over its rivals, the fact that Mr. Eich’s views on gay marriage might have posed some danger to that community was almost by definition disqualifying. If his job was to motivate people, and he was instead causing people to question the community’s ethic—well, at the least, you can say he wasn’t doing a good job.
To some Mozillians, this became especially clear over the last week, when Mr. Eich refused to recant his position on gay marriage in a series of interviews. “In his first test as C.E.O. of Mozilla, he failed to execute,” wrote Matthew Riley MacPherson, a developer who works for Mozilla in Montreal. “So while I think his donation to Prop 8 spurred the controversy and exposed his inability to think as Mozilla’s C.E.O. instead of as Brendan Eich, I don’t think it was his stance against gay marriage in his home state of California that should be named as the cause of his departure.”
Instead, Mr. MacPherson argued, it was Mr. Eich’s inability to keep his community together amid a growing firestorm that proved he could not lead the organization.
Mr. MacPherson added: “So while the mob might feel like it won, proving that there is some kind of zero-tolerance for homophobia in America, Eich’s departure from Mozilla tells a slightly more nuanced story than that.”
No, you "thoughtful" Mozilla mobsters, it's not more nuanced than that, no matter how you try to spin it.
Those a-holes at Mozilla should be ashamed. I hope Mr. Eich opens up competition and smokes his old company.
Seems these kooks do not realize there would most likely not be a “Mozilla Community” without the incredible mind of Mr. Eich. This is a really stupid little collective. The company does not deserve to survive.
I use Mint Debian on my newer computers and Ubuntu on an older laptop. I have been using Thunderbird and Firefox for years. I’m looking at Claws for email but am not sure about the browser. There are the Debian derivatives of the Mozilla products (Iceweasel and Icedove) but they are Mozilla at the core.
The problem is that Mozilla’s intolerance is probably shared by much of the open source community. It almost seems like a religion-substitute to these nerds.
I’ve got an AR-15 they can come and get
The totalitarians are winning. Only views approved of by the DNC, the New York Times, and the rest of the liberal elite are allowed to be expressed openly, or supported by donations.
Of course, Mr. Eich's heresy would not have come to light if it were not for the "campaign finance reform" laws put in place by the left.
Okay, gotcha!
Two speerate countries. Yeah! That’s what we need. :-)
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And this....is how you get The Terror.
...See French Revolution.
Off to the re-education camp to get bu†† fawcked.
I divested myself of Firefox after searching for another browser. I disdain Google chrome and IE from Microsoft. Came across Maxthon, which has pretty good reviews. I like it. I wrote a post to Mozilla Facebook of my disgust. I also mused that a generation from now the entire Homosexual issue may be mute, with an eventual cure for all birth defects from advancements in genetic medical science.. Now, if the same science can only one day lead to a cure for that other birth defect of liberalism..
You don’t have to go back to Microsoft. Check out Pale Moon’s browser. It’s pretty sweet. Almost exactly like Firefox.
Genesis 19 is all you need to know to understand what will be coming for each of us.
These people will happily rape, mutilate, butcher, kill, cage and imprison anyone and everyone who does not give into their demands or support their perverted and twisted ways.
Understand where this will go.
They will surround your house and break in the windows and doors to force themselves on you - and nothing you can offer them outside of what they demand will satisfy them.
Stand, resist and die. Or be subjugated. That is where we are at in this country - whether you want to understand that fact or not.
I think it is past time for a split-up. I’ve had way more than enough.
One of the reasons I use Firefox is because custom add-ons can be written for it. Is there any other good quality non-fascist browser that I can switch to that is not Internet Explorer?
“Have we really come to this?”
Heck, we’ve been *here* for over 5yrs; most people are just seeing it more clearly now.
I think Christians need to pray like never before. It just seems that the more our nation succumbs to the abomination of men marrying men and women marrying women, that the earthquakes and bad weather increase in intensity. I have to wonder if God has had enough, and if a line has been crossed.
I thought his only sin was giving $1000 to an organization supporting a referendum. Has he gone on record making speeches?
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