It didn't say 'death to all colored people' either back in the day. Just the color of their skin made them different. Now, just who someone chooses to love. Why do I feel the need to defend myself? But okay, in case you're wondering, I'm married and have been for 14 years after beeing with the same girl for 7 years during college. Yeah, thats long... In my country same-sex marrige has been possible for years. I teach my kids they can decide for themself who they wish to love.
This is not a good reason to use a less secure browser.
Let's face it, Mozilla Firefox is more open and provides a higher level of control over Javascript (a very common thing used for launching browser exploits) than Chrome.
So essentially this author is compromising with their security due to the personal opinions of a CEO. This to me is not a good reason to switch browser.
I find the revival of interest in his political donation since his rise to become CEO a little ridiculous.
When I first found out, I was shocked and maybe even a little upset. But I don't see him using Mozilla to advocate his own political beliefs, and I find his argument of "checking political and religious opinions at the door" when going into Mozilla good enough.
I don't see why we have to make such a big deal out of his personal opinion, as long as we don't have any indication that he'll be using his position at Mozilla to further his political agenda.
If we start hearing about gay men being refused to work at Mozilla under suspicious circumstances, or other such abuses, then I'll be outraged.
I don't think it's become that and I don't believe he's "a homophobic religious gay bashing evil hitler". I do believe it's a mistake promoting a contentious[1] person to CEO since that's pretty much guaranteed to cause a PR shitstorm like this.
[1] Allegedly three board members quit because they wanted an outside hire instead of Eich (unrelated to the Prop 8 issue).
For Mozilla, it's problematic because of our principles of inclusiveness, because the Indonesian community supports me but doesn't have quite the megaphone.
Which comes across as "the lurkers support me in email[1] and y'all are just bleating because you can".
But like I said in another comment, I have relatively little skin in this particular game.
So he boycotts Mozilla and instead goes to Chrome, Which Google is behind. Google, one of the major (the biggest?) contributors of Mozilla.
> You’re probably wondering: “Why now?” The donation came to light in 2012. It’s simple: He was a low level functionary back then. He had no more power than the cashier who ranted at me about the “War on Christmas.”
Wasn't Eich the CTO of Mozilla back then? That position must be very impotent at Mozilla, I guess.
Trying to oust Brendan Eich out of his professional position because you don't like his personal opinions is SJW-style bigotry and harassment. It's an example of everything that is wrong with the SJW scene. You don't try to convince people through civil debate (and just give up if you can't), you insult/bully/harass/mob/threaten/disenfranchise people into accepting your position. This is beyond the pale.
Who's talking about a witch hunt? My article is about my personal decision to choose another browser, and the conditions for reconsidering Firefox. None of those conditions involve him losing his job. I don't think you actually read it.
> Don't play dumb. All of this so-called "activism" is meant to put pressure on Mozilla to fire Eich. It is a witch hunt. And you are complicit.
This from the person who doesn't think we should interpret and judge a man's public anti-equality political contributions? Why do you give the benefit of the doubt to him and no one else?
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Let's face it, Mozilla Firefox is more open and provides a higher level of control over Javascript (a very common thing used for launching browser exploits) than Chrome.
So essentially this author is compromising with their security due to the personal opinions of a CEO. This to me is not a good reason to switch browser.
When I first found out, I was shocked and maybe even a little upset. But I don't see him using Mozilla to advocate his own political beliefs, and I find his argument of "checking political and religious opinions at the door" when going into Mozilla good enough.
I don't see why we have to make such a big deal out of his personal opinion, as long as we don't have any indication that he'll be using his position at Mozilla to further his political agenda.
If we start hearing about gay men being refused to work at Mozilla under suspicious circumstances, or other such abuses, then I'll be outraged.
If you're against gay marriage, then you're obviously a homophobic religious gay bashing evil hitler.
I'm glad he stood up for what he believes in and put his money where his mouth was. If only more people (on all sides of arguments) did the same.
[1] Allegedly three board members quit because they wanted an outside hire instead of Eich (unrelated to the Prop 8 issue).
But like I said in another comment, I have relatively little skin in this particular game.
[1] If you remember Usenet.
> You’re probably wondering: “Why now?” The donation came to light in 2012. It’s simple: He was a low level functionary back then. He had no more power than the cashier who ranted at me about the “War on Christmas.”
Wasn't Eich the CTO of Mozilla back then? That position must be very impotent at Mozilla, I guess.
> every keypress straight to Google
Stop spamming Hacker News with your insane activism, which is nothing more than bigotry under the guise of anti-bigotry.
Take this shit back to the SJW ghettoes of tumblr, where it belongs.
You've confused me with someone else. I haven't called for him to step down or for Mozilla to fire him.
This from the person who doesn't think we should interpret and judge a man's public anti-equality political contributions? Why do you give the benefit of the doubt to him and no one else?