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Brendan Eich homophobe?
A lot of people accuse Brendan Eich (CTO of Mozilla and inventor of JavaScript) of homophobia. The reason? He gave $1000 to support Prop 8, a proposed law that would eliminate rights of same-sex couples to marry.
- First of all, what is Proposition 8?
- California Proposition 8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaProposition 8 (ballot title: Eliminates Rights of Same-Sex Couples to Marry. Initiative Constitutional Amendment; called California Mar...
- Here is the page where you can see he gave $1000 to support the law:
Brendan Eich, Mozilla - Proposition 8 Campaign Contributions - Los Angeles TimesDatabase of donations and campaign contributions given both in support of and in opposition to Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure tha...- A lot of people were very disappointed about it:
Brendan Eich, inventor of Javascript and discriminating homophobe. projects.latimes.com/prop8/donation…
Apparently @brendaneich, father of #JavaScript, isn't as versatile as his language. He donated $1000 in support of a gay marriage ban. #WTF
truthy || falsy values – like JS, @BrendanEich also has issues with equality – projects.latimes.com/prop8/donation…
The creator of JavaScript, @BrendanEich, paid money to keep people like me from getting married. projects.latimes.com/prop8/donation… #wrongsideofhistory
Sad to see that @BrendanEich donated $1,000 to support Prop 8 in California. projects.latimes.com/prop8/donation… (via @sco)
another good reason to support Dart over Javascript: JS creator @BrendanEich put $1000 towards gay marriage ban projects.latimes.com/prop8/donation…
Dear @mozilla and @BrendanEich, your mission is "build openness". How can you then donate $1k to ban gay marriage? kg.tl/Hl8qW9
One more reason to never use any software by Mozilla. Besides the obvious reasons. projects.latimes.com/prop8/donation… @BrendanEich is a homophobe!
BTW, JavaScript would still be a disaster even if @brendaneich was marching down Market Street in June.
I'm so used to awesome programmers being awesome people too. Really disappointed that @BrendanEich bucked the trend. lat.ms/AcAaH1
It makes me so happy to read @BrendanEich's mentions and see him getting his bigot ass ripped a new one! let his 10k followers shun him.
