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Ummm... so what does gay marriage have to do with browsing the web? FAIL
by nobbyclark 12y ago
Ummm... so what does gay marriage have to do with browsing the web? FAIL
- mjudge260 12y agoit reflects an attitude that company executives have towards their employees. Companies should respect the reality that their employees do not have homogenous political views.
- joelrunyon 12y agoIt didn't sound like he expected anyone at Mozilla to have his viewpoints. He made a private donation privately, 6 years ago.
- daveqr 12y agoWhich we only know of because someone leaked the information to a pro-gay marriage group illegally.
- davidgerard 12y agoNo, we know it because it was a political donation that had to be recorded publicly by law, with the name of his employer. Where did you get this claim that "someone leaked the information to a pro-gay marriage group illegally"?
- davidgerard 12y agoNo, he made a public donation publicly, the public bit being required by law.
- joelrunyon 12y agoYou make it sound like he held a press conference. All donations are public by law, sure, but he made the donation as a private citizen.
- mjudge260 12y agoI don't see how reciting a companies commercial objectives can aid your argument. FAIL
- jhuckabee 12y agoBuilding a web browser requires that you employee people, some of whom may be gay. Alienating that entire group of people, and the majority of others who support them, can certainly put a damper on their motivation to keep that browser pushing along at full speed. Definitely not FAIL, this is a big win for Mozilla and civil rights.
- davidgerard 12y agoAnd ... the users. They thought they had the company swung; but there were boycotts and actually-disgusted end users happening.