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Re:Mozillagate grows by davidgerard on Friday March 28, 2014 @01:45PM (#7488785)
He's had two years to prepare for this REALLY OBVIOUSLY BEING THE STORY.

I'm strictly an amateur at nonprofit PR (press volunteer for Wikimedia), and I could shit better damage control than Mozilla's managed so far.

It's now made international mainstream news (Channel 4): http://www.channel4.com/news/mozilla-chief-executive-twitter...

Seriously, you people. You had TWO YEARS' RUNUP! What couldn't you have done with TWO YEARS' RUNUP?

As a friend put it: 'I'm envisioning the board standing around with glassy stares, "I have no idea how this could have happened. We totally vetted his geek cred."'

Re:Mozillagate grows by robobro on Friday March 28, 2014 @12:45AM (#7485393)
New CEO of Mozilla donates $1000 to anti-gay movement != Mozilla is now an anti-gay company.

I hate all of the Social Justice stuff flooding into HN

Re:Mozillagate grows by bsder on Friday March 28, 2014 @01:58AM (#7485588)
Then I take it you hate all of the stuff based on open source?

Part of the reason why so much open source stuff exists is because a few people believed that it was an issue of social justice, was tremendously important, and was worth fighting a tremendous uphill battle in order to establish.