[enupten]

This is sad.

I know about Brendan Eich's views, but Mozilla is an organization devoted to open source, none of whose concerns, as far as I can tell, have anything to be with sexual minorities. Were he still the CEO, he really couldn't have used his office to act on his views; so why all the castigating ?

He has a view, and sure a lot of us (including me) don't agree with him, but this culture of outrage is disgusting.

[trustfundbaby]

I think what happened is that Gay rights stopped being a matter of opinion and turned into a matter of civil rights ... and Eich just got caught on the wrong side of it. On one hand I feel kind of sorry for him, but on the other, I'm happy to see American society making progress in this way. I think its a lesson to all of us to be very careful and forward thinking about the battles we choose to fight in life.

Not to make this any more controversial ... this could easily be the story of a racist person in the who got caught in the same position after the tides shifted and being openly racist just wasn't acceptable any more ... for example Trent Lott.

[benched]

I don't think you and so many others would say the same thing if the issue was inter-racial marriage, today. Is it really so hard for people to get a little bit ahead of the progress curve for a change, instead of digging in and dragging heels behind it? What is it that makes it so hard?

[lolwutf]

No, but the difficulty with which your personal viewpoint can be adopted is not (nor should not) be the benchmark of his responsibilities as Mozilla's CEO, which is what he is there for.