I wish he had stuck thru the storm. I support gay marriage, but no one should be made to apologize for a belief that half of the country (including Obama) agreed with at the time. He was a consummate professional that did not slander anyone else based on their belief. Now we are slandering him thru a social media shit storm.
OkCupid should be ashamed for themselves for their cheap move leveraging their large user base.
Brandan Eich = "deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies"
Really, he is your enemy? He make your site work with JS and Firefox. Without both, internet browsing will suck today. Please OkCupid, show him some respect and a benefit of doubt.
Mozilla failed to back the cofounder that worked tirelessly for them for 16 years. They never emphasized after 16 years in an executive role, his personal vote did not have any effect on his ability to lead a diverse team. Hope his next company will appreciate his contributions more.
Eich's 2008 pro-Prop 8 view was not shared by Obama, who expressly spoke out in 2008 against both Prop 8 specifically, and attempts to write same-sex marriage bans into constitutions generally.
Not sure why the “Eich was wronged” crowd raises this lie so often.
> no one should be made to apologize for a belief that half of the country...
What? If the "belief" was the material support of a law to strip a class of people of rights -- yes, absolutely they should apologize... at the very least.
> Now we are slandering him thru a social media shit storm.
It is only slander if it is untrue, he never repudiated his views. People basically called him someone who is against marriage equality ... because, well, he is someone who is against marriage equality.
> Mozilla failed to back the cofounder that worked tirelessly for them for 16 years.
What really kicked off this thing was lack of internal support, when you have GROUPS of your own employees publicly calling for your resignation, you are in deep shit as a CEO.
> his personal vote did not have any effect on his ability to lead a diverse team
By "personal vote" you mean, material support for a law to strip a group of people of a right? Just double-checking. Additionally, it DID have a massive effect on his ability to lead the Mozilla staff, bunches of them on twitter asked him to step down.
> Hope his next company will appreciate his contributions more.
We will see, I suspect no company will hire him as a CEO. Being homophobic is just not hip these days. I really think he doesn't belong at the helm of a company -- probably make a great CTO somewhere, or just retire and relax.
OkCupid should be ashamed for themselves for their cheap move leveraging their large user base. Brandan Eich = "deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies"
Really, he is your enemy? He make your site work with JS and Firefox. Without both, internet browsing will suck today. Please OkCupid, show him some respect and a benefit of doubt.
Mozilla failed to back the cofounder that worked tirelessly for them for 16 years. They never emphasized after 16 years in an executive role, his personal vote did not have any effect on his ability to lead a diverse team. Hope his next company will appreciate his contributions more.