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That's literally why Eich was made to resign as Mozilla CEO: his anti-LGBTQ+ history is poison for one hell of a lot of web engineers.
Internet engineering, as a field, has always been rather queer.
> "There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny." — Eric Allman, author of
sendmailExactly. The ex-CEO. Emphasis on ex. Mozilla took the right decision, Brave didn't. That is literally why the "both-sides" argument is ridiculous.