This is called being "promoted away" to do no harm, when firing is not an option for some reason. This time he had blind luck; the project could have been scrap

This is called being "promoted away" to do no harm, when firing is not an option for some reason. This time he had blind luck; the project could have been scrapped, as most actually end up. Everybody and their dog was implementing a browser in those days but never saw daylight (ISP sw depts 4 sure).