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Re:Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch” by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:37AM (#18066641)
> So it's cool to have an opinion, as long as you don't make any effort to share it, discuss it, or enact any of the conclusions that may naturally flow from it.

You can do that, too.

OTOH, If you do that in a way which is offensive to the ideals of a large group, you may not like the consequences when they, to, attempt to “enact any of the conclusions that may naturally flow from” their ideals, especially if you are seeking a job with a high profile public role in an organization which survives on the political support of a group which overlaps significantly with the most offended group by your action.

Mozilla Corp isn't a relatigely apolitical business entity, it is, while itself a for-profit corporation, a subsidiary of an ideological nonprofit.

Re:Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch” by BrendanEich on Monday October 01, 2018 @07:40AM (#18111701)
I am a mozilla.org cofounder (full list: https://twitter.com/jwz/status/981028500353069056?s=21 - note no one currently at Mozilla). We were not “ideological” in the standard political-religion sense (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology). If you are arguing that the Mozilla Foundation, swimming in NFP/NGO seas, has become ideological since founding and spinout from AOL, I agree. But it was not always or necessarily so.

FYI the only “Mozilla” people who spoke against me while I was CEO did not work for me; they were in the Foundation.