“some dude” is the CEO. Has the CEO of Mozilla donated money against same-sex marriage? If not, you are the one who is engaging in “poo-flinging”.
That’s literally why Eich was made to resign as Mozilla CEO: his anti-LGBTQ+ history is poison for one hell of a lot of web engineers.
Internet engineering, as a field, has always been rather queer.
“There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it’s basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That’s kind of funny.” — Eric Allman, author of
sendmail
He’s probably done some horrible thing
Edit: yep https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/mozilla-ceo-eich-resigns-after-controversy/
Brendan Eich steps down following calls for his ouster over his support for California’s anti-gay marriage Proposition 8.
Wow, on the nose. Literally, yes.
Yes, he stepped down as CEO of Mozilla and is now CEO of Brave. I’m not sure if you’re joking or genuinely didn’t notice that they’re the same person.
Yeah but Mozilla isn’t tainted by it? Come on, that’s ridiculous. He’s not building some anti-gay code into the software, the homepage of Brave (or Firefox) isn’t “lol fuck the woke”.
Dig into any company, or any CEO, you’ll find something to get angry about. People are people. Products are products. Open source products especially so.
