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Brave only exists because Mozilla fired eich for some donations he made to an anti gay-marriage group, iirc. I really dislike the donation he made, but firing
by gentleman11 6y ago
Brave only exists because Mozilla fired eich for some donations he made to an anti gay-marriage group, iirc. I really dislike the donation he made, but firing people for their legal personal political behaviour is like poison to a free society
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- pseudalopex 6y agoEich wasn't fired. He resigned because people didn't want to follow him.
- geofft 6y agoEich also drew, to my knowledge, almost no objection when he was CTO of Mozilla. It was when he became CEO - a non-technical, political role - that people started asking about whether he was the right choice for it. His technical qualifications include that he invented one of the most popular programming languages ever and one in which Mozilla heavily invests. His political qualifications include that he lobbied to deny human rights to his own employees. Eich and Stallman both are people who would have done far more both for the causes they believe in as well as their own careers if they recognized they were more effective as technical leaders than as political ones.
- BrendanEich 6y agoYou don’t speak for me, so why are you writing “He resigned because” here?