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Re:Mozilla under fire: Inside the 9-day reign of fallen CEO ... by cdcarter on Sunday June 15, 2014 @01:19PM (#7895711)
> Other people hold a different political view, and what they did about it was to try to punish someone who had expressed the first political view.

No, no, see. Other people hold a different political view, and what they did about it was lobby to have a major organization run by someone who doesn't express that first political view.

I know of NOBODY who wanted to "punish" Eich for his actions. I know of PLENTY who wanted to have someone tolerant running the volunteer driven organization.

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Re:Mozilla under fire: Inside the 9-day reign of fallen CEO ... by Excavator on Sunday June 15, 2014 @02:45PM (#7895927)
> I know of NOBODY who wanted to "punish" Eich for his actions. I know of PLENTY who wanted to have someone tolerant running the volunteer driven organization.

Well it was certainly felt by Mozilla employees:

>¹ Several calls to boycotts, several petitions asking for the resignation of our CEO, demonstrations, insults, death threats, ...

>² Death threats against Mozilla employees and contributors don't count as attacks on Mozilla in your book?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7588527

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7588460

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