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Your long comment is kind of a mess (e.g., the CEO of OkCupid never gave to a pro-Prop-8 charity; he gave to a Republican candidate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Your long comment is kind of a mess (e.g., the CEO of OkCupid never gave to a pro-Prop-8 charity; he gave to a Republican candidate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Cannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Cannon] who was against SSM -- see http://perezhilton.com/2014-04-08-okcupid-ceo-is-guilty-of-donating-to-anti-gay-causes-just-like-mozilla-ceo-brendan-eich http://perezhilton.com/2014-04-08-okcupid-ceo-is-guilty-of-d...). Obviously some "public perception" was against me, but some was for me, and it then raged against Mozilla (see #nozilla twitter hash-tag). The net effect was probably a wash. You should ask why PR was not good while I was exiting Mozilla. Think it through.

orionblastar 11y ago
Yes I know there are a lot of people who supported you during that time. I also know that there was a big move to boycott Mozilla. http://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2014/04/05/backlash-against-brendan-eich-crossed-a-line/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2014/04/05/backlash-... According to Forbes the boycott crossed a line. We are seeing social justice warriors take on FOSS projects like the Github project Opal. One contributor was accused of making a transphopbic tweet and they wanted him removed. Then they closed that issue and made a new issue to make a code of conduct. That is when the trolls came out with zero day accounts. We haven't seen the last of this thing, and it seems to be targeting the tech industry because that is where a lot of good paying jobs are that are held by mostly white straight males. They see you, a White straight Christian male as the ultimate enemy. These attacks are coming from the left-wing groups. I too want to see more women, minorities, GLBTT people in IT jobs, but not at the cost of discriminating against white males to do it. http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/07/nozilla-surprisingly-no-one-is-happy-after-mozilla-ceos-resignation/ http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/07/nozilla-surprisingly-no-on... Apparently conservatives didn't like it that Mozilla caved in to bullies, and ignored that you stepped down and resigned and didn't get fired. It seems like Mozilla got hit on both the left and the right. I still use Thunderbird and Firefox, it is because they are good software and open source. I'm sorry to see you and Mozilla got hit by both sides of the same sex marriage debate.

orionblastar 11y ago

Yes I know there are a lot of people who supported you during that time. I also know that there was a big move to boycott Mozilla. http://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2014/04/05/backlash-against-brendan-eich-crossed-a-line/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2014/04/05/backlash-... According to Forbes the boycott crossed a line. We are seeing social justice warriors take on FOSS projects like the Github project Opal. One contributor was accused of making a transphopbic tweet and they wanted him removed. Then they closed that issue and made a new issue to make a code of conduct. That is when the trolls came out with zero day accounts. We haven't seen the last of this thing, and it seems to be targeting the tech industry because that is where a lot of good paying jobs are that are held by mostly white straight males. They see you, a White straight Christian male as the ultimate enemy. These attacks are coming from the left-wing groups. I too want to see more women, minorities, GLBTT people in IT jobs, but not at the cost of discriminating against white males to do it. http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/07/nozilla-surprisingly-no-one-is-happy-after-mozilla-ceos-resignation/ http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/07/nozilla-surprisingly-no-on... Apparently conservatives didn't like it that Mozilla caved in to bullies, and ignored that you stepped down and resigned and didn't get fired. It seems like Mozilla got hit on both the left and the right. I still use Thunderbird and Firefox, it is because they are good software and open source. I'm sorry to see you and Mozilla got hit by both sides of the same sex marriage debate.