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by MichaelGG
4462 days ago
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William Shockley held some opinions a lot of people would dislike. No one is ditching the transistor. Darwin thought blacks were quite inferior and not as evolved. No one is discounting the theory of evolution. It'd be like ditching XMLHttpRequest because someone at MS was racist - it's simply not going to happen. |
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I believe users can boycott a product and start a movement and have a huge effect in today's world. It's happened before and I think it's possible it can happen again.
I think most people realize that it was socially acceptable for people to hold certain beliefs in another era and would not fault them for holding those beliefs.
If the car was invented by a homophobe, it's not like people would ditch it, given that cars are essential to many people and also given the time period the inventor lived in. But is Mozilla or javascript essential? Maybe. You could certainly be correct that it won't happen. But I can see it being replaced. I can see a group of people choosing alternatives.