[vgharl]

Because if you are a reasonable person, then you realize crucifying a guy for having a consensus, mainstream opinion is absurd. It's revisionist, retro-active punishing from the political losers here. A majority of California agreed with him.

Not only that, but targeting Mozilla but ignoring JavaScript is the absolute height of hypocrisy and hollowless grandstanding, done by people that have a financial stake in JavaScript, but not Mozilla.

In short, fuck these people.

[untog]

I'm not sure what defines a "consensus, mainstream opinion", but support for gay marriage has been over 50% for a few years now. Hardly a definitive yes, but it's certainly not a consensus to the opposite. In California specifically, 61% supported gay marriage in 2013[1].

And he wasn't 'crucified' for having the opinion, it was because he actively contributed to a campaign. Holding a private opinion and financially contributing to a cause are quite different things.

Not only that, but targeting Mozilla but ignoring JavaScript is the absolute height of hypocrisy

It absolutely is not. Does "JavaScript" pay Eich a salary? Is it a money making entity? Does he even have anything to do with the day to day running of it? Of course not.

[1] http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2443.pdf

[vgharl]

> 61% supported gay marriage in 2013

So?????

You do realize that we're talking about Prop 8, which was 2008 here. Prop 8 passed.

Again, stop this revisionist bullshit.

> Does "JavaScript" pay Eich a salary?

Eich's entire fucking resume could be:

"Created JavaScript"

That's it. He would sail from conference to conference until the end of bloody time, raking in thousands if not millions of dollars here.

OkCupid wanted it both ways. They wanted to keep their skin out of the game when it would hurt their bottom line, but wanted to make political points for that easy PR gain. So they targeted Mozilla.

[untog]

The Prop 8 result doesn't matter. The Mozilla community are not the population of California. They are entitled to have different opinions to them.

As for the JS stuff, you're now just throwing out a bunch of coulds, woulds and shoulds. Could he really go from conference to conference until the end of time? The same people calling for him to be fired would likely boycott conferences. So they're just as consistent as you say they aren't.