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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 99 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It's because he donated $1,000 in support of California's Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California's state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

Which is all the reason I need.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

If he had changed his tune since then and done something to offset that, I might be willing to cut him some slack.

But, instead, he seems to have doubled down...

[–] foo@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago

They had me at invented JavaScript