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I think g+ is having a significant strategy tax on the rest of google's products (similar to windows for microsoft). However, the benefits of g+ for google are potentially huge. Organizing all products across one account system helps them get to know you better, which in the end should result in better products.
You're correct, nobody is suggesting that a clansman or a neo nazi run mozilla. That said, 34% of americans oppose SSM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_same-sex_marr...). 34% is a large minority, not a fringe element.
"Removing existing rights"? two years before that, this "right" never existed. For a right to be enshrined it has to survive, a majority of californians voted to approve prop 8...
Exactly. Mozilla is about at the end of the day "openness" unfortunately for some people at mozilla, that means working with people who's views you might not be comfortable with. This is the whole point of working in and pushing for an open society.
"any opinion is ok, as long as you're not conservative" I used to get this constantly in HS and now in college. This type of thinking is extremely toxic and I think can be very damaging for an institutions reputation. Mozilla is no longer about "openness" it's now about a much more generic liberal world view.