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0 pointsdrawkbox12y ago0 comments

Eich is a huge, HUGE proponent of the open web and helped co-found Mozilla. He created Javascript. He is a huge reason the web is so open and browser technologies made all of our lives better. He is also part of the reason Mozilla is so inclusive.

Everything is a balance. His contributions to Mozilla, the open web, technology, fairness and many other things outweighs his one misstep by far. And if that is not possible then we live in a black or white, totalitarian mindset state. People can be wrong and it shouldn't outweigh everything right they have done. Especially since this happens in the midst of major social change, there will be some waves.

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te_chris12y ago

I was referring to the GP's sweeping "society" comment. State-sanctioned discrimination is not a difference of opinion issue. I don't care if people genuinely believe that gay people are immoral so long as their belief is not being used to legitimately undermine the human rights of a whole group of people with no rational justification other than fear and prejudice. I don't like that society and don't want to be part of it - thankfully I'm not, New Zealand legalised gay marriage and has none of the stupid religious conservatism in our politics that the USA has.

Eich, in this wider societal context, means very little.

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