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by digi_owl 3240 days ago
Or look at the short term Mozilla CEO that was ousted over a public outcry regarding similar private matters.

Edit: Hrmf, never mind. Egg on my face.
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dragonwriter 3240 days ago
Publicly-disclosed (by legal mandate) financial sponsorship of a public advocacy campaign on a public policy matter is about as far as you can be from a “private matter”.
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digi_owl 3240 days ago
Hrmf, did i get my CEOs confused. Could have sworn there was some BDSM stuff involved as well. Or was that some other FOSS project?
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dragonwriter 3240 days ago
> Could have sworn there was some BDSM stuff involved as well.

Well, not with Eich. I don't think there was another short-term Mozilla CEO ousted among public controversy.

ISTR participation in Gor fandom being brought up alongside sexual harassment/abuse claims for a prominent community figure (maybe Jacob Applebaum? I thought it was him, but I don't see that element mentioned in any of the articles on him, so it may have been someone else) but I don't remember that or consensual BDSM related activity being the central concern in any ouster.

EDIT: As a sibling comment suggest, the Gor issue was with Larry Garfield.

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vertex-four 3239 days ago
The only well-known techie BDSM stuff I know of was not a CEO - it was Larry Garfield of the Drupal community.
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