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Does one really want to associate themselves with Brendan Eich though? Brave is what he has been building after being ejected from Mozilla. While Brendan has b

Does one really want to associate themselves with Brendan Eich though? Brave is what he has been building after being ejected from Mozilla. While Brendan has built some interesting and useful things including Javascript, he is apparently poisonous enough to cause three of Mozilla's board members to resign, including a founding executive of Yahoo, the former CEO of AVG, and the former CEO of Mozilla Corp (from 2008 to 2010). His wiki page is a good reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

contem 8y ago
The disagreements were about strategy and mobile experience, so not enough to call someone poisonous. Place Yahoo, AVG, and Moz Corp against Brendan's co-founder status and JavaScript. The other toxic drama was about a 1000$ political donation. Very sad to see an unpopular view used to paint someone as a monster. If democratic political views are enough to kill someones career, it is more a sign of the toxicity of today's social media and activism than a character judgment. > Does one really want to associate themselves with Brendan Eich though? No, not really. Not a good political idea to align yourself with the black sheep. With all the tars and feathers he just looks weird. Though it also works in his favor: Brave is popular amongst the alt-right and technical-minded early adopters. They see it more as character assassination and SJW corporate culture taking desperate vengeance for Trump's win.
- thrower123 8y ago
  The fact that Eich was pilloried after the fact for what was at the time a mainstream political opinion is absurd. Brave is fantastic on android though.
  - Dylan16807 8y ago
    > at the time It was ten years ago. When people fussed about it it was six years old. How many years back do political actions count as relevant?
dblohm7 8y ago
You're repeating a lot of misinformation. Here's a better reference: https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-under-fire-inside-the-9-day-reign-of-fallen-ceo-brendan-eich/ https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-under-fire-inside-the-9-da...

contem 8y ago

The disagreements were about strategy and mobile experience, so not enough to call someone poisonous. Place Yahoo, AVG, and Moz Corp against Brendan's co-founder status and JavaScript. The other toxic drama was about a 1000$ political donation. Very sad to see an unpopular view used to paint someone as a monster. If democratic political views are enough to kill someones career, it is more a sign of the toxicity of today's social media and activism than a character judgment. > Does one really want to associate themselves with Brendan Eich though? No, not really. Not a good political idea to align yourself with the black sheep. With all the tars and feathers he just looks weird. Though it also works in his favor: Brave is popular amongst the alt-right and technical-minded early adopters. They see it more as character assassination and SJW corporate culture taking desperate vengeance for Trump's win.

thrower123 8y ago
The fact that Eich was pilloried after the fact for what was at the time a mainstream political opinion is absurd. Brave is fantastic on android though.
- Dylan16807 8y ago
  > at the time It was ten years ago. When people fussed about it it was six years old. How many years back do political actions count as relevant?

dblohm7 8y ago

You're repeating a lot of misinformation. Here's a better reference: https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-under-fire-inside-the-9-day-reign-of-fallen-ceo-brendan-eich/ https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-under-fire-inside-the-9-da...