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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 1 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dman ◴[15 Jan 20 21:11 UTC] No.22058629[source]▶
Brendan Eich has a helpful chart of Compensation of Highest paid executive at Mozilla vs Firefox market share over time.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584/p...

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paul7986 ◴[15 Jan 20 22:16 UTC] No.22059384[source]▶
Seems odd in his tweet he noted he was unable to get funding in the valley for Brave. The guy created JavaScript and was a creator of Firefox. Don't get it ..as JS alone has contributed like how much to world economies, as well to almost every HN reader's wallet/bank.
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core-questions[dead post] ◴[15 Jan 20 22:23 UTC] No.22059460[source]▶
He got cancelled for not supporting gay marriage. Nothing he has actually personally done or will do matters in this new moral calculus.
YorickPeterse ◴[15 Jan 20 22:32 UTC] No.22059547[source]▶
If I remember correctly he didn't get fired for just not supporting gay marriage, he got fired for donating to some bill that was trying to prohibit gay marriage. That's quite the difference.
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core-questions ◴[15 Jan 20 23:29 UTC] No.22060009[source]▶
I don't see that as being very different. Why is him exercising his protected right to political speech in donation form subject to your judgement when it doesn't have any impact on the quality of the software he gives you for free?

Did he say "gay people can't use Firefox"?

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codezero ◴[15 Jan 20 23:53 UTC] No.22060211[source]▶
I think that it was less about the end-user as it was about the gay people working for Mozilla who felt uncomfortable working with a CEO who took the actions Eich took in his past. One cannot know peoples' private thoughts or biases, so folks often take what ever signal they can get.
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Polylactic_acid ◴[16 Jan 20 00:06 UTC] No.22060301[source]▶
Its exactly the same as avoiding a company which uses slave labor in some 3rd world countries. No one wants to be funding these actions.
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core-questions ◴[16 Jan 20 00:52 UTC] No.22060610[source]▶
You're seriously likening the inability of gay people to go through the motions of a marriage ceremony to children being subjected to slave labour? That's the falsest equivocation I have ever read.
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1. Polylactic_acid ◴[16 Jan 20 02:56 UTC] No.22061294[source]▶
I'm comparing avoiding a company because of human rights issues with avoiding another company because of human rights issues. Its understandable for a well adjusted person to not want to fund either of these things.