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To: Blue Highway

I’m not going to stop using what is currently the best browser dev tool in Firebug and hinder my ability to deliver because of this controversy. It’s not all about checking out the latest cute cat pictures. There’s productivity on the line too, which is beyond the scope of awareness for most browser users.

Chrome is catching up in terms of dev tools, but that’s just it - they’re catching up. Anyway, isn’t Google evil too and I’m supposed to be boycotting them? Should I use Dolphin? Opera? I bet we can find dirt on them too! :-)


8 posted on 04/14/2014 4:55:46 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: andyk

I have to agree, there is no other tech company around that isn’t, er, in bed with the homosexuals, and I’m sure they make sure there are no conservative opinions of any kind are heard in any part of their organization as normal business practice. Come to that, you won’t find a single corp giant that won’t censure you for having a conservative viewpoint. Once you get so big, you become a government, and governments are leftist fascists.


19 posted on 04/14/2014 6:43:57 AM PDT by MaggiesPitchfork
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To: andyk
I’m not going to stop using what is currently the best browser dev tool in Firebug and hinder my ability to deliver because of this controversy. It’s not all about checking out the latest cute cat pictures. There’s productivity on the line too, which is beyond the scope of awareness for most browser users.

Agree with all this - if a project requires the use of a WebKit-based browser or a Gecko-based browser, then that's what my developers will work on unless we wish to fail.

But even for the far larger end-user community, I don't believe boycotts will be effective - Mozilla is a non-profit funded by donations. It'd be optimistic to get 100 people to boycott Firefox and switch to a new browser - and the net effect would most likely be nothing. But get 100 people to be active users and regular, articulate posters to Mozilla's forums who then voice their feelings about the Brendan Eich issue and you send a very clear message to Mozilla that they will pay attention to.
20 posted on 04/14/2014 11:57:27 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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