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It has been a little while now that this fledgling community has been around and it remains one of my favorite stories about communities. A splinter of a much larger community took it upon themselves to challenge the rest and make a move to a new home. Shedding the shackles that were being placed on them was a bold move, but one that has been fantastic.
The community here is great, but here is my question. Overall, we are amazingly tolerant of others, of the choices they make, and of their beliefs. I would then be curious, if we are such a tolerant group, how do we address intolerance in our ranks? I recently came across what I can only say filled me with pity and sadness. I find it saddening that in this day and age, and especially in this group, there are still such hate-filled people.
But this poses a question: how does a group that is tolerant deal with intolerance within it's ranks? Does our acceptance of others extend to accepting someone that has thoughts and beliefs which are far from the norm within this community, or is there a limit placed on how far from our own values a member of the community may be?
(Score: 1) by velex on Monday April 14 2014, @01:39AM
Ach, going off topic. My thing is that well, should he have been fired? No. Was he "fired" in the way we mere mortals understand it, again, probably not. I highly doubt he's scrambling handing in applications to Burger King and Target trying to get a job before his buffer runs out and he can't make rent. Then there's the whole thing of why the Mozilla foundation wasn't aware of this donation?
Is this guy really not that bad of a person, just has some reason to oppose gay marriage while being a-ok with gay folks? Who knows?
My thing is I was watching Firefox om-nom-nom my workstation's memory yet again, and the thought occurred to me that at some point, that thing was gonna have ads too. Then I asked myself whether I really wanted to give money to the Mozilla foundation.
My rule is that I never give money to folks who would use that money to lobby for legislation that will make my life more difficult or else directly use that money to give me a bad day (happened before). (For example, any business that advertises itself as Christian I make sure to avoid, since I don't think it would be in my best interest or the owner's best interest to exchange goods and services. The owner doesn't want me as a customer, and I don't want to give him my money. Win-win.) It's kind of unclear which case that is, if any, here.
My answer was no. So I installed SeaMonkey, which yes I know is still Mozilla, but it ended up running better than Firefox+Thunderbird. So, I'm now a SeaMonkey user. I don't think I'll go back to Firefox.
Nobody can force me to use Firefox. That's just the reality of it. If the Mozilla foundation really wants me to use their soon-to-be ad-laden browser, well, "firing" the guy was a nice gesture, but SeaMonkey is better for my use-case as it turns out.
What I would really love is Konqueror and K-Mail from KDE 3, but c'est la vie.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 14 2014, @01:55AM
My rights don't end where your fear begins.