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I don't think it is, honestly. Nothing about his desire to suppress gay marriage speaks to how to treats people and individuals, nor how Mozilla would - look at

by Aloha 13y ago

I don't think it is, honestly. Nothing about his desire to suppress gay marriage speaks to how to treats people and individuals, nor how Mozilla would - look at Bill Marriott he also contributed to Prop 8, and Marriott is very well regarded for benefits to gays and lesbians (100% score as of 2014 for Marriott International) - in short, just because your personal views are X doesn't mean that X is the view your business will take. If we don't defend the rights for free speech any of us could run the risk of being on the wrong end of that knife in the future.

zimpenfish 13y ago
Was Marriott well regarded before he (I'm assuming he was in charge at the time) contributed to Prop 8? Then he has a track record of not letting his personal views get in the way. I think people were mostly unhappy that Eich has no track record in this regard - not that there's any reason to suspect he would be discriminating - and that he kept dodging the issue in interviews. It's a PR disaster on Mozilla's part - putting him in charge was always going to create an internet frenzy and the - possibly entirely innocent - coincidental departure of three board members does not look good. Eh. I think it could all have been handled in a much wiser fashion by Mozilla and none of this would have happened.