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I mean, they had an internal employee revolt, since his “personal opinions”, opinions backed by cash, were that those employees should have their human rights limited.

You can’t lead effectively if the people you are trying to lead justifiably view you as hostile to them.

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> were that those employees should have their human rights limited

I repeat it: I don't like Eich, I don't like his opinions, but he never laid off entire dev teams, he used his personal money to support his personal world view, it has nothing to do with what people at Mozilla could or couldn't do.

> You can’t lead effectively if the people you are trying to lead justifiably view you as hostile to them.

Is it better if your righteous new CEO fires you?

This is actually not the case.

Because someone supports creating new laws for other kinds of marriage than traditional doesn't mean that they hate or want to limit the rights of some groups.

Eich donated significant sums of money to LGBT organizations both before and after the voter referendum.

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