Putting Condi Rice in charge of privacy: not a "proactive stance."

Officially Firefox still supports XP SP2, which hasn't seen official support from Microsoft since July 2010.

Unofficially, I haven't tried it lately but I suspect it still runs on Windows 2000.

15 years of "everything's fine?" Or simply 15 years of employees quietly being passed over for promotion, implicitly encouraged to seek employment elsewhere, and not wanting to jeopardize a professional reference? Nobody ever lost a job by not complaining about their workplace environment.

Workplace discrimination and a hostile work environment are by their nature self-perpetuating and are often subtle enough to go unaddressed and unchecked for years as victims desire to avoid "rocking the boat" and jeopardizing both their present and future employment.

Any appearance of bigotry so high up the chain of command cannot be tolerated if an organization truly wishes to be inclusive. Letting him continue to hold his prior position of authority unchecked after his bigotry came to light was a mistake; promoting him simply compounded the long-festering problem.

Oooh, "grassroots!"

He also opposed preemptively bombing Iran and didn't choose Sarah Palin as a running mate. Most political candidates don't run on a single issue. Did the campaign check specifically have "Fuck the gays!" written in the memo?

Depends on if they all hypocritically run companies that claim to strive for diversity.

And since it's the only "reason" you listed it's the only reason that matters? Besides, unlike Eich here, "the black churches" (as well as churches of other, less sinister colors) have tended to recant prior support and joined organizations such as the NAACP working towards equality.

Or, y'know, federalism.

And Paula Deen and her brother got the racial discrimination claims against them dismissed. When problems have to get worse than that before they can be formally addressed, nobody can afford a "wait and see" approach.

Written policies, outreach programs and benefits such as maternity leave certainly haven't put an end to gender-based employment discrimination, but they do make a good whitewash.

It doesn't need to be invisible, it just needs to avoid prosecution ("It's just a coincidence that H-1B's under the age of 30 were the best qualified candidates for the job.")

Who gets "cast out" depends entirely on who's at the top.

And that whistle-blower will never be hired by anybody else again. All future potential employers will "just happen" to find a better-qualified candidate than someone with a history of antagonizing their employers.

"Meritable ideas" don't pay for rent or buy groceries. The CEO has, for all practical purposes, unlimited power to mete out punishment and reward, and with such great power must come great scrutiny.

$1000 is more than the average American makes in a week.

But we don't all drop $1k in support of our bigotry and then get all squirmy when asked if we still feel the same way. George Wallace was more repentant.

I don't support efforts to deny others the ability to worship if, when and how they choose.

I don't support efforts to criminalize being a member of a political party.

A single-issue advocacy group that sought nothing other than to disenfranchise a minority.

He paid for the venues and the fliers.

They weren't "his employees" until last week.

California law and written corporate policy would have kept him from acting on his prejudices overtly. Discrimination and a hostile work environment don't need to be written into the employee handbook to be present, especially when it goes all the way to the top.

Bing Bar nothing. Windows 8 includes an unavoidable banner ad for the Windows Store.

And yet you would give the authority to hire, fire, and set policy to an unreformed bigot and hope it all works out for the best?

How many current Volkswagen executives and board members make political contributions to Nazis? We're not talking about divesting from ECMAScript here.

Fucking summary, second-to-last sentence.

Because the people upset about it were outnumbered on the board.

Welcome to Slashdot.

Legally, the only way employment discrimination can be addressed (in cases where it's even illegal) is if it's overt, explicit, and documented. Anything short of that and the victim is left with nothing but legal fees, with even less of a chance of getting a new job after having a history of filing a discrimination suit. Eich wouldn't have to act directly, openly, or even knowingly for a corporate culture to build up around him and his authority that "coincidentally" rids him of those meddlesome gays, regardless of the platitudes written into the stated corporate policy. From a practical standpoint labor's only defense is to assume guilt until proof of innocence, and in this case Eich is still unrepentant.

It wasn't his marriage that got revoked.

Employment discrimination laws in the US are toothless (when they exist at all) and conservative lawmakers are doing what they can to gut them further. Conservative corporations have gone so far as to argue before the Supreme Court that management can be neither asked nor expected to keep their "sincerely held beliefs" separate from their business policy decisions. He can hire and fire at will, he can change policy on a whim, and he can even impose a hostile work environment to force out undesirables without saying a word or otherwise getting his hands dirty.

In the current corporate legal environment that leans heavily in their favor, there can be no expectation of separation of the public and the private for management. They simply have too much power over the lives of others to pretend anything else is possible.

Unlike earnings reports?