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Was Eich a Threat To Mozilla's $1B Google "Trust Fund"?
theodp (442580) writes "Over the years, Mozilla's reliance on Google has continued to grow. Indeed, in its report on Brendan Eich's promotion to CEO of Mozilla, the WSJ noted that "Google accounted for nearly 90% of Mozilla's $311 million in revenue." So, with its Sugar Daddy having also gone on record as being virulently opposed to Proposition 8, to think that that Google's support didn't enter into discussions of whether Prop 8 backer Eich should stay or go seems, well, pretty much unthinkable. "It is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8," explained Google co-founder Sergey Brin in 2008. "We should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love." Interestingly, breaking the news of Eich's resignation was journalist Kara Swisher, whose right to marry a top Google exec in 2008 was nearly eliminated by Prop 8. "In an interview this morning," wrote Swisher, "Mozilla Executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker said that Eich's ability to lead the company that makes the Firefox Web browser had been badly damaged by the continued scrutiny over the hot-button issue, which had actually been known since 2012 inside the Mozilla community." Swisher, whose article was cited by the NY Times in The Campaign Against Mozilla's Brendan Eich, added that "it was not hard to get the sense that Eich really wanted to stick strongly by his views about gay marriage, which run counter to much of the tech industry and, increasingly, the general population in the U.S. For example, he repeatedly declined to answer when asked if he would donate to a similar initiative today." So, was keeping Eich aboard viewed by Mozilla — perhaps even by Eich himself — as a possible threat to the reported $1 billion minimum revenue guarantee the organization enjoys for delivering search queries for Google?"
Maybe you need to think it over retarded liberal douche. This is the lying, hypocritical gay agenda doing whatever they can to get what they want. They will squash a person's ability to have an opinion and vote accordingly. Yet, when they setup a boycott against Firefox by denying a public webpage (like anti-gay denying service to gays) to a browser that is far removed from an anti-gay position, that is totally OK.
This is about freedom of speech which has been a right guaranteed (just recently by SCOTUS too) by the right to vote the way you want. Google, Mozilla, and many other organizations are being hypocritcs for their actions. And I am discontinuing use of Firefox and Chrome over this.
But this is the liberal way... believe what we believe or we'll take away your livelihood.
I don't think you thought about this. We're allowing a very small minority of people to redefine Marriage, something that has been defined for thousands of years across the globe and coultures. Why would we allow a small minority to tell the rest of us what to do? Why do we allow them to terrorize us, call us often vicious names and so on if we don't totally agree and write that in blood? Tolerance they tell us, yet they are far from tolerant. Could say they are tolerant as long as you agree with them.
This was such a non issue. So he donated $1 grand 5, almost 6 years ago to something? $1 grand is nothing in those issues. Just crazy bullies again forcing a good guy out because of their intolerance.