I completely agree where you're coming from however, in the case of Mozilla I believe that the reference is relevant.
If you see that the company is producing a good product that you're donating to support. Would the "customers" (supporters) want to support the time and cost associated with kicking out the CEO over personal+(believed to be) private activities? (Context: Brandon Eich donated 1k of his personal money to a conservative/anti-gay org, and an activist within mozilla found+escalated this and claimed hostile work environment, eventually got him removed)
If I was donating, I would be pissed to know that valuable time was wasted about that and the loss of talent of personal politics and disagreement.
I'm responding to the word "degenerate", which was name-calling and flamebait. I don't see any problem with the comment otherwise. I've taken out the word "activism" in my GP comment to make that clearer.
Edit: "don't see any problem" does not mean I agree with the comment. It means I don't see any other place that it broke the site guidelines.
I mentioned this before and the claims were that you lost the "trust of the employees" infering that the work environment wasn't feasible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23681475
I think for a private action that's insane. But oh well.
If you see that the company is producing a good product that you're donating to support. Would the "customers" (supporters) want to support the time and cost associated with kicking out the CEO over personal+(believed to be) private activities? (Context: Brandon Eich donated 1k of his personal money to a conservative/anti-gay org, and an activist within mozilla found+escalated this and claimed hostile work environment, eventually got him removed)
If I was donating, I would be pissed to know that valuable time was wasted about that and the loss of talent of personal politics and disagreement.