The 'anti-gay' stance was that he donated to a campaign for prop 8 in California; that preposition passed. So he was guilty of agreeing with the majority of voters in California.
It's not that odious of a sin (and I disagree with Eich, incidentally). Should the majority of California citizens be canceled, permanently? Not allowed any leadership positions?
I'm not trying to re-litigate the past. But it was enough of a consequential donation back then to have removed from as CEO of Mozilla. So that's a pretty big deal. Somehow that has never made its way into anything related to Brave as far as I've noticed, and generally I've followed the company at least in terms of top HN links (always curious to see what people are doing in the browser space). I've never seen it mentioned in any articles discussing Brave, or in any of the HN commentary since. I just find that odd, especially against the bigger societal winds. I'm wondering if I'm missing something like he himself did some about-face, or people lost track of this, or if they just don't care anymore or what? But not only did Mozilla care back then, but quite a bit of HN did as well when it happened.
Every time Brave comes up on HN I search the comment section for "Eich" to see if this is still being mentioned. It always is. That's how I found your comment. You just haven't really been looking.
> But it was enough of a consequential donation back then to have removed from as CEO of Mozilla.
False. The reason for leaving Mozilla was never published.
> I'm wondering if I'm missing something like he himself did some about-face, or people lost track of this, or if they just don't care anymore or what?
So your disappointed Hacker News isn't more engaged with identity politics and cancel culture?
And by the way you are wrong. It has come up in several threads in the past.
> False. The reason for leaving Mozilla was never published.
Well, then the timing is so aligned then at this point it's just occam's razor unless there's another explanation.
> So your disappointed Hacker News isn't more engaged with identity politics and cancel culture?
There's plenty of that. It's nearly daily now on HN. That wasn't my point at all. Just the inconsistency has always been apparent for years now so I finally asked the hive mind.
> And by the way you are wrong. It has come up in several threads in the past.
I stand corrected. I had never noticed those comments. That said, it was easy to not notice them as they're a tiny fraction of everything around Brave and have almost no discussion around them compared to his original ousting.
If you say you didn't mean to start a flamewar, I believe you, but it's such a classic flamewar topic and has been so done to death for so many years, that other users can't be blamed for thinking otherwise. The effect was to troll the thread even if was unintentional.
It's not that odious of a sin (and I disagree with Eich, incidentally). Should the majority of California citizens be canceled, permanently? Not allowed any leadership positions?