This almost looks like an internal decapitation engineered by Baker. She was most likely outvoted on the Board to hire Eich and when he started almost immediately showing the company could be led in a different direction on a more autonomous tact, she got defensive and called in her homonazi buddies to save her skin.
Evidenced the new revelations that the CEO of the faggot-pony site has also given contributions to conservative politicians and nothing happens to him, and he was the one who blew the dog whistle.
She understood what Eich could bring to the company and she got scared. It was too easy to cruise along on the Google Welfare train than to do something creative with entrepreneurship so it was “off with his head”.
Eich will bounce back with a new browser, I feel, because that is just the kind of forward thinker he has been.
“She understood what Eich could bring to the company and she got scared. It was too easy to cruise along on the Google Welfare train than to do something creative with entrepreneurship so it was “off with his head”.
Even without the gay controversy, mozilla’s going downhill fast. They are behind in keeping up with webkit/blink on web standards. Most web developers have already embraced Chrome. Chrome has all the mindshare and supporting firefox is like supporting IE. No fun but just part of the job.
Mozilla’s other biggest asset was its customizable UI but instead of doing what’s best for the user, they are just copying Chrome and IE. (I’m also surprised that Opera also killed a great thing with their new dumbed down browser)
I put up with these issues because I trusted Eich and thought mozilla.org was a cause worth supporting. But now? No, it’s just another Chrome clone.