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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

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.

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."'