I have not seen any issue that has divided Silicon Valley so deeply since first moving there in 1992 as this Mozilla thing has.
I’m not talking about the blogs, even this one. I’m talking about very emotional disagreements breaking out on Twitter and Facebook between people I respect and who until recently thought that they saw these issues of equality, tolerance and freedom the same way.
The worst of what I’m seeing is this – people who have steadfastly supported gay rights (and minority rights in general) but don’t like seeing how Eich is being treated are being called bigots and worse by their colleagues.
At some point soon everyone is just going to exhaust themselves, and an uneasy truce will emerge.
But the long term fallout seems to me to be that a lot of people simply won’t say what they think any more out of fear of…
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