Oh really? Do you suppose many VCs will want to invest in his startup, knowing that a crowd of zealots will be chomping at the bit to protest them and boycott their other investments?

I'm afraid he may be effectively blacklisted in this industry now.

I heard a rumor Brendan Eich was going to start working on a new project with a couple of his staunchest and loudest supporters, Eric Raymond and Russell Nelson, who were also forced out of their jobs as leaders of Open Source companies because they were bigots.

Following the precedent of Project GNU's rebranding "FireFox" as "IceCat" for their own political and ethical reasons, they're going to rebrand "FireFox" as "WhistleDog", and develop a web browser aligned with their own political and ethical ideology, which is more inclusive of people who think it's wrong to be intolerant of intolerant people, and less tolerant of communists like RMS, bullies like homosexual activists, and blacks, who Raymond and Nelson describe as "stupid", "violent" and "lazy".