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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.
cdmckay ◴[15 Jan 20 22:32 UTC] No.22059545[source]▶
He didn’t not support gay marriage, he actively gave money to oppose it. That’s a little different.
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core-questions ◴[15 Jan 20 23:28 UTC] No.22060004[source]▶
It doesn't matter - it's legal, protected political speech in donation form. There's nothing wrong with having differing opinions about things; you can disagree as much as you like and donate as much as you want to counter it.
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big_chungus ◴[15 Jan 20 23:36 UTC] No.22060068[source]▶
You're right, it absolutely is. The corollary to this is that no one has to hire him/work with him; they're allowed to fire him for his legally-protected speech. I don't agree with how it was handled either, but we must protect their freedom to act as they choose as much as Mr. Eich's freedom to speak as he chooses.
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1. baud147258 ◴[17 Jan 20 17:45 UTC] No.22077080{3}[source]▶
Oh, sure, until it ends up in the situation where you have to prove your perfect ideological allegiance to the Party in order to have employment. It's already the case that you can't publicly post things without getting dox'd and fired for a lot of opinions that were 100% the norm not that long ago. You may call it progress, but the progression is towards totalitarian liberalism; your gay marriage is really not going to make that experience that much better once they find some place where you're not faithful enough. For example, what if you're a white gay male?