Re:Why You Should Uninstall Firefox and do Some Soul Searching
by FireBeyond on Friday April 04, 2014 @12:48PM
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Err, Eich wasn't fired for his views. He was hired, and chose to step down. How much pressure came from the board, versus how much was it Eich himself deciding to make the decision.
Re:Why You Should Uninstall Firefox and do Some Soul Searching
by ConceptJunkie on Friday April 04, 2014 @01:01PM
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I think it's fair to say he would not have stepped down had this boycott not happened. Furthermore, the Board could have refused his resignation, saying, if you're stepping down because you believe you're a liability to the company, don't. Stay on and we'll work this out.
Perhaps that's actually what happened, and Eich chose to step down anyway. We'll probably never know. What we do know is that current trend of politicizing everything has reached a new milestone (and a new low).
Mozilla crossed over into a whole new territory. The once humble as as the article put it, politically neutral organisation for the first time I am aware of in its history caved in to popular opinion. Should Brendan Eich have known better than to air his views on a touchy subject like same-sex marriage? As a CEO yes, but it is wrong to vilify someone simply because their views do not align with those of others. Eich made a mistake, and the whole situation quickly got blown out of proportion.
The wrong decision was made in this situation and as a result, I too, uninstalled Firefox.