[sdegutis]

> He's promoting Opal on that same Twitter account, though.

So? It's his personal twitter account. He can do what he wants with it. He can say the Surface Book is great, or Opal is great, or Opal sucks. That doesn't make anything he says there into an official endorsement or opinion of the Opal project.

> A parallel: It's like saying he can bully someone outside of class, and that as long as he sits nice and quiet in class, the school shouldn't do anything about it.

The difference is that bullying is actually against rules. Expressing your views on something controversial like this is perfectly allowed due to freedom of speech.

> True, but his statement was a soft-core version of hate speech.

For one specific definition of hate-speech, sure. But not one that's universally agreed upon. In other words, that's like, your opinion, man.