Also, personal donations can make you unfit for some positions. Significant parts of the community felt his donation was not in line with the values they wanted to see represented. And since you didn't agree with them you decided to leave.
We all lose if it's only Chrome.
Also, anybody can use the Gecko web rendering engine, yet project after project after project has picked the WebKit or Blink rendering engines.
And no, I haven't "shot myself in the foot" - when I replaced Firefox I found two great browsers: Brave and Vivaldi.
The better question is why you continue to support a compromised organization?
As for Mozilla being compromised - maybe, but it's still less compromised than advertisement companies, crypto companies, tax evaders, and their likes.
And Brave and Vivaldi are based on Chromium, so they help Google that Chromium sets the standards for the web.
You already shot yourself, just didn't recognize yet.
Why do you support a crooked company like Google?
Get back with me when the Mozilla Foundation has done a fraction of what Google has done in furthering our knowledge of computer science. Other companies making significant contributions to our knowledge of computer science are AT&T, IBM, and Microsoft. Would you prefer them to Google?
Also, the Firefox against the world meme is juvenile.
>Get back with me when the Mozilla Foundation has done a fraction of what Google has done in furthering our knowledge of computer science.
I would also consider which Big Tech company you're fighting. Last I looked, Google wasn't cited as the cause of a significant uptick in US teenagers committing suicide and being plagued with mental health issues. I could go on, but in the realm of Bad Actors in the land of Big Tech, Google is actually one of the least problematic entities.
So not having leadership with opposing view does not seem strange to me; donation was done privately but it end-up being public enough. There's enough hypocrisy and pink-washing ...
If it's the former then what business do they have caring about Brandon Eich's personal donation to support a ballot initiative?
If it's the latter then it's a conflict of interest and Brandon Eich should be asked to leave.
Might at times be at the detriment of Firefox but it's not like there is any alternative imo. So I don´t mind, it's not like if they remove their LGBT manifesto they suddenly will become relevant again and people will start to care about privacy.
Might be that LGBT people care more about privacy and that this manifesto will help them stay relevant.
And it's not like 2% is not a lot of people, TOR browser is certainly even less and it does not change the fact that I believe it's an highly important piece of software.
Morals my ass!
I stopped using Firefox the day they kicked Brandon out and here's the kicker: I don't agree with the cause Brandon supported but I agree his employment shouldn't be affected by donations he made to support a ballot issue.
So yeah, the Mozilla Foundation can go straight to hell with that shit.
Good riddance!