Random people aren't pawns for political initiatives, even when the politics are good. And you can't walk it back to "well, there's already a taint for working at Yahoo" without being the guy who just called everyone at Yahoo incompetent. There were many ways this guy could have expressed a similar sentiment without casting aspersions on hundreds or maybe even thousands of totally reasonable, perfectly competent people. Instead, he picked the most classless possible way to do it.

I blame this on the choice of Twitter as his venue. Everything he said after it, to Venturebeat, is now subject to the distortions of the news cycle. I know of at least one really smart person who works at and thinks highly of Yammer; I have a hard time believing it's really run the way this article makes it sound.