This whole story is disgusting. I'm still waiting to understand exactly where does a personal opinion on gay rights interfere with the ability to manage a company that basically develops a web browser.
Just another witch hunt.
Just another witch hunt.
With that permanently at the back of our minds, how can we ever trust his actions towards others are "fair and unbiased"?
The only way to ensure any equality in this situation would be to have a committee review his every action, which undermines his role as CEO.
This is a classic case of your prior actions coming to bite you in the ass later in life. Which is why you probably shouldn't post photos of you smoking pot, videos of you speeding in your moms car - or anything else thats reckless we do in our youth.
His donation has been well known for years, and Mozilla has had no apparent problem hiring or keeping gay developers even through he held an executive position and had massive influence there. Given that, and the fact that there have been gay Mozilla employees who supported his appointment to CEO, it seems unlikely that Mozilla would no longer be able to attract gay people.