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DRM was not the main issue we faced, just one of many. I wasn't vague, Twitter limits size to 280 chars. We developed a decision spreadsheet with the data in al

DRM was not the main issue we faced, just one of many. I wasn't vague, Twitter limits size to 280 chars. We developed a decision spreadsheet with the data in almost all the rows weighing against Gecko. Your "seeming enthusiasm for burning some bridges behind him" is bunk. On what did you base it? Again, we started Brave based on Gecko (multiprocess sandboxed embedding via Graphene, which was developed for FirefoxOS). We did not just jump to Chromium upon founding. A startup is a no-BS/little-room-for-error setting with scarce capital. To suggest I did anything uneconomic out of spite is silly.

sfink 5y ago
> I wasn't vague, Twitter limits size to 280 chars. We developed a decision spreadsheet with the data in almost all the rows weighing against Gecko. Perhaps "vague" is too loaded a word? I did not mean it as an insult or complaint, I was just pointing out the fact that the reasons were unclear because they were mentioned but not described. Twitter's character limit is a perfectly valid reason for that. And the literal meaning of the word "vague" applies perfectly. > Your "seeming enthusiasm for burning some bridges behind him" is bunk. On what did you base it? > ...To suggest I did anything uneconomic out of spite is silly. I was not suggesting that. Sorry, it seems I did not describe myself well. "Burning bridges" was not a reference to making anti-Gecko technical decisions. It's about unrelated public postings that I object to, but I don't think that here is a place to get into it. I am confident that the bases for your technical choices were well-founded and I have no reason to suspect that they were made out of spite.
- BrendanEich 5y ago
  Hi Steve, I read through https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40brendaneich%20mozilla%20since%3A2014-04-03&src=typed_query&f=live https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40brendaneich%20mozilla... and wondered which ones you meant. If I burned a bridge I should try to rebuild, let me know. If you mean the ones about Mozilla holding back tracking protection while Monica Chew was there, or the ones about Mitchell's ridiculous salary, then we must disagree on "burning bridges". I'm not going back to Mozilla, and even if I hoped to, I see no reason to lie or self-censor about bad things they did after I left.

sfink 5y ago

> I wasn't vague, Twitter limits size to 280 chars. We developed a decision spreadsheet with the data in almost all the rows weighing against Gecko. Perhaps "vague" is too loaded a word? I did not mean it as an insult or complaint, I was just pointing out the fact that the reasons were unclear because they were mentioned but not described. Twitter's character limit is a perfectly valid reason for that. And the literal meaning of the word "vague" applies perfectly. > Your "seeming enthusiasm for burning some bridges behind him" is bunk. On what did you base it? > ...To suggest I did anything uneconomic out of spite is silly. I was not suggesting that. Sorry, it seems I did not describe myself well. "Burning bridges" was not a reference to making anti-Gecko technical decisions. It's about unrelated public postings that I object to, but I don't think that here is a place to get into it. I am confident that the bases for your technical choices were well-founded and I have no reason to suspect that they were made out of spite.

BrendanEich 5y ago
Hi Steve, I read through https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40brendaneich%20mozilla%20since%3A2014-04-03&src=typed_query&f=live https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40brendaneich%20mozilla... and wondered which ones you meant. If I burned a bridge I should try to rebuild, let me know. If you mean the ones about Mozilla holding back tracking protection while Monica Chew was there, or the ones about Mitchell's ridiculous salary, then we must disagree on "burning bridges". I'm not going back to Mozilla, and even if I hoped to, I see no reason to lie or self-censor about bad things they did after I left.