Fuck Brendan Eich, but he’s not been involved with Mozilla for 12 years, and JavaScript is open-source. There’s no reason to boycott either because of Eich.
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z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I don’t disagree with you. It is funny to point out though that Brendan Eich, the founder of the Brave Browser, is also the cofounder of The Mozilla Foundation, and the creator of the JavaScript Programming language.
So if you really want to boycott the homophobe, boycott Brave, Firefox, all Firefox forks, and JavaScript.
egrets@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Whataboutism turned up to 11, nice
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I have no particular axe to grind in this matter but I’m pretty sure there’s no equivalence and it’s more nuanced than that.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
For a start, Rich don’t see a penny from Moz or JS
He sees millions of dollars from Brave
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Which of these projects is he still in control of, and still making money off of?
lian_drake@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think he’s pointing out the fact that usually when someone that people disagree with for X or Y reason has touched, created or participated in anything, people tend to demote all of those things, just because this person was involved in it. It’s a stupid thing to do, but some people do it.
sakuraba@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Thankfully this is not the case because we are criticizing brave browser the project he is an active member of. oh and thiel because he is an investor.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Weird flex.
Bill gates was also the"inventor" of Windows and he fucked little kids on an island.
tyler@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
One is a for profit ad company controlled by a homophobe. The other is a non-profit foundation that isn’t… there’s a pretty big difference here.