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Comment by nobbyclark | Hacker News Reader

Ummm... so what does gay marriage have to do with browsing the web? FAIL

Building a web browser requires that you employee people, some of whom may be gay. Alienating that entire group of people, and the majority of others who support them, can certainly put a damper on their motivation to keep that browser pushing along at full speed.

Definitely not FAIL, this is a big win for Mozilla and civil rights.

And ... the users. They thought they had the company swung; but there were boycotts and actually-disgusted end users happening.

it reflects an attitude that company executives have towards their employees. Companies should respect the reality that their employees do not have homogenous political views.

It didn't sound like he expected anyone at Mozilla to have his viewpoints.

He made a private donation privately, 6 years ago.

Which we only know of because someone leaked the information to a pro-gay marriage group illegally.

No, we know it because it was a political donation that had to be recorded publicly by law, with the name of his employer.

Where did you get this claim that "someone leaked the information to a pro-gay marriage group illegally"?

No, he made a public donation publicly, the public bit being required by law.

You make it sound like he held a press conference. All donations are public by law, sure, but he made the donation as a private citizen.

I don't see how reciting a companies commercial objectives can aid your argument. FAIL

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