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For anyone curious, Eich didn’t fund a political campaign but rather a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. It was struck down as unconstitutional

by xref 7y ago

For anyone curious, Eich didn’t fund a political campaign but rather a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. It was struck down as unconstitutional. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_... Additionally, Eich was not fired but resigned even though the Mozilla board asked him to stay. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich Judging from the parent’s multiple posts in this thread it appears he is adjusting facts to fit his narrative.

d03-dsd 7y ago
Forced to resigned is what actually happened. the Mozilla board is irrelevant when pretty much everyone at mozilla (and elsewhere) was against him. https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/28/after-supporting-prop-8-brendan-eich-comes-under-fire-from-mozilla-employees-upon-ceo-appointment/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/28/after-supporting-prop-8-br... http://images.gawker.com/v4gzz90abp5suzrmel25/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636.png http://images.gawker.com/v4gzz90abp5suzrmel25/c_fit,fl_progr...
- roca 7y ago
  It is a lie that "everyone at Mozilla was against him". I worked at Mozilla at the time (distinguished engineer). I don't know about the board, but the vast, vast majority of staff wanted Brendan to stay. A handful of Mozilla Foundation staff spoke out against him and got lots of publicity.
ecmascript 7y ago
Not really the truth though. They wanted him to stay, but in a different role. I regard that as being fired as CEO and I do not understand how you could interpret that in any other way. Several employees started a campaign demanding his resignation. Other companies like OkCupid stated recommended Firefox users to switch to Chrome and there were others as well. Sure, he wasn't really fired by the letter but rather he was smeared and a lot of people organized a hate campaign towards him. Who would want to stay in such a toxic environment? Incredible that the same people that claim to value diversity and inclusion just loves to exclude and give people incredible amounts of hate when they do not conform to the exact same beliefs. No one in the board backed their CEO or defended him. I am not adjusting the facts. I do believe in same-sex marriage. You can marry whomever you want beacause I do not care, but to give someone the treatment he got for not believing the same thing is just horrible and unjust.

by xref 7y ago

d03-dsd 7y ago

Forced to resigned is what actually happened. the Mozilla board is irrelevant when pretty much everyone at mozilla (and elsewhere) was against him. https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/28/after-supporting-prop-8-brendan-eich-comes-under-fire-from-mozilla-employees-upon-ceo-appointment/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/28/after-supporting-prop-8-br... http://images.gawker.com/v4gzz90abp5suzrmel25/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636.png http://images.gawker.com/v4gzz90abp5suzrmel25/c_fit,fl_progr...

roca 7y ago
It is a lie that "everyone at Mozilla was against him". I worked at Mozilla at the time (distinguished engineer). I don't know about the board, but the vast, vast majority of staff wanted Brendan to stay. A handful of Mozilla Foundation staff spoke out against him and got lots of publicity.

ecmascript 7y ago

Not really the truth though. They wanted him to stay, but in a different role. I regard that as being fired as CEO and I do not understand how you could interpret that in any other way. Several employees started a campaign demanding his resignation. Other companies like OkCupid stated recommended Firefox users to switch to Chrome and there were others as well. Sure, he wasn't really fired by the letter but rather he was smeared and a lot of people organized a hate campaign towards him. Who would want to stay in such a toxic environment? Incredible that the same people that claim to value diversity and inclusion just loves to exclude and give people incredible amounts of hate when they do not conform to the exact same beliefs. No one in the board backed their CEO or defended him. I am not adjusting the facts. I do believe in same-sex marriage. You can marry whomever you want beacause I do not care, but to give someone the treatment he got for not believing the same thing is just horrible and unjust.