The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board…

Of course I can’t comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can’t figure out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

  • @[email protected]English
    15•2 days ago

    You said it “sounds accurate” then complained about people’s criticism of it. You didn’t actually give any detail about what’s accurate about it or try to explain it in terms that aren’t “rude”.

    So my reading comprehension is fine, it’s just your ability to actually explain what it is you agree with (in terms that aren’t “rude”) is lacking.

    • @[email protected]English
      -2•2 days ago

      Ok:

      • list of donors that are not all left
      • parent organizations that get money from above
      • mozilla gets money from parents

      Op latches onto one donor; pulls some other stuff out , and the crowd goes wild

      • @JcbAzPxEnglish
        7•2 days ago

        Okay, but what’s the bad part here? That’s just a very generic overview of how donating works.

        • @[email protected]English
          -2•2 days ago

          The bad part is four things:

          • the op either deliberately or legitimately did not understand what was being said
          • the vast majority of the comments just read what the op wrote and not what was said
          • having this many comments out of whack with this many upvotes gives ammunition to the bigots
          • this is a tech forum ??
          • @[email protected]OPEnglish
            4•2 days ago

            the vast majority of the comments just read what the op wrote and not what was said

            What part of my post isn’t something he said

      • @[email protected]English
        6•2 days ago

        This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs

        Ok, so you say the donors are not all left, so why would a politically diverse set of donors result in Mozilla having “lefties-only” hiring practices? Reading comprehension requires some critical thinking.

        It seems Brendan Eich doesn’t understand that it’s a politcal diverse group that donated to Mozilla (as you do), given the next sentence. Someone with strong reading comprehension would understand logic of, but I’ll explain it to you. His statement is saying that Mozilla became a politically biased organization because of influence from those that donated to it.

        Though your strong reading comprehension may have resulted in you having a different interpretation of “lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply” to mean… well maybe explain what that means to us poor illiterate people that don’t possess your intellectual prowess, LOL.

        Also do you care to comment on your interpretation on the “glowies” remark? What does that word mean to you? What is Brendan Eich saying there? Something you agree with I guess.