https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/
Their mission statement is to create an open internet.
To suggest that the people that made him leave cared about a culture fit at a company the didn't work at is ludicrous.
"Mozilla-based activities should be inclusive and should support such diversity."
Okay. If Eich was still there, this must logically be followed with:
"..Nevermind that one C-level guy over there who took positive action to deny some of you rights, this absolutely will not impact anything in any way and we as a company still hold these views of diversity and openness."
Having someone with his beliefs at such a high position makes the entire "diversity" thing ring rather hollow. No matter what you think of the whole situation, I think you can see the dissonance that would cause.
My experience with human beings is that precisely nobody can silo their beliefs like that.
So we need to stop discrimination before it happens? How do you feel about implementing some pre-crime measures nation-wide? As soon as he started advocating some anti-gay hiring policies, or rejecting pull requests from transvestites, then the consequences would've made sense to me.
Though that's an idealist view, in reality letting him stay would've been interpreted as an endorsment by all the people making a huge fuss about it, in my ideal world no one would've cared to begin with.
Instead of adding to their CPG you should've actually read the parts that don't agree with your view
> Some Mozillians may identify with activities or organizations that do not support the same inclusion and diversity standards as Mozilla
Diversity and inclusion should mean including people who don't agree with diversity and inclusion.
In reality letting him stay would've been interpreted as an endorsement by all the people making a huge fuss about it
Those people "making a huge fuss about it" were denied equal rights for an additional six years thanks, in part, to Eich. Are you suggesting they should have just shut up? Where do you draw the line?
Diversity and inclusion should mean including people who don't agree with diversity and inclusion.
We're going to have to disagree on that. Rights are rights - I don't see how tolerating someone who thinks gays are inferior is one whit different than tolerating someone who thinks blacks or women are inferior.
At "anger doesn't justify actions that hurt others". I'm not sure what your point is, getting him fired didn't help... A guy was denied the first amendment and mozilla lost a talented engineer, a net loss.
> Rights are rights - I don't see how tolerating someone who thinks gays are inferior is one whit different than tolerating someone who thinks blacks or women are inferior.
Provided they do not act on those beliefs, I agree, people should not be persecuted based on some beliefs ingrained in them from childhood. Looks like I'm more tolerant than you are.
Provided they do not act on those beliefs,
But he did act on them. Eich didn't get people mad at him because he thought gay people were icky, he got people mad at him because he took action to strip away their rights.
And kindly can the personal attacks.
Can you please point out where he said gays are inferior?
This is basically a variant of the argument that is used by religious business owners who don't want to serve gay people... "you are infringing on our right to practice our religion!" they say.
The point being, you have rights, but you don't have the right to infringe on other people's rights.