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I think this was a setup. Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and was the CTO of Mozilla. He is intelligent and works hard on open source. However, h

I think this was a setup. Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and was the CTO of Mozilla. He is intelligent and works hard on open source. However, he HAD opposed same sex marriage. While he was CTO of Mozilla, no one cared. When he became CEO, there was a smear campaign to get rid of him. I respect his contributions, but not his politics. He has the freedom to say what he believes - I still use Firefox. IMHO this was just an excuse to get ride of him as CEO.

kelnos 6y ago
Yeah, I never really understood all the animosity against Mozilla or Firefox around this. IMO giving money toward homophobic causes is reprehensible, and Eich sounds like someone I wouldn't want to be friends with or work with, but he is not Mozilla and Mozilla is not him. > He has the freedom to say what he believes ... IMHO this was just an excuse to get [rid] of him as CEO. I support the right of employees to hold their executives to high standards, even (especially?) when those standards aren't directly related to the work they do. It was a messy situation and perhaps not handled perfectly, but I don't see anything wrong with the end result being his resignation. Yes, the timing was suspicious (I would have been uncomfortable reporting to him "even" as a CTO), but I would argue more along the lines of "took you long enough" instead of "why is this suddenly an issue now?" > ... but not his politics I really dislike seeing things like this phrased as "politics". Treating other people with respect and giving them equal rights isn't politics, it's basic human decency. I hope in 50 years we look back at this time period and are appalled at how we treated our fellow humans.