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It was over after the Brendan Eich debacle


I was supportive of getting rid of him at the time, but after seeing what that path lead to, I now think we need to just stick to business and keep people private lives out. I really don't agree with what he was doing but that shouldn't matter for the purposes of running a successful company and product.

To have a functioning society we basically have to accept using products and projects from objectionable people because almost everyone is objectionable in the perspective of someone else.


I wasn't familiar with this bit of history.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26868536

Unfortunate.. especially considering OkC is now wholly owned by Match. They stand only for making money, so the whole esposé effort effectively ended up as a no-oo.


"In February 2011, OkCupid was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp, operators of Match.com, for US$50 million.[15]"

[15] https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2011/02/02/little-rock-na...

OkC was wholly owned by the same company that owned Match in 2011, before anything in 2014 involving Mozilla. It was always all about money.




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