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Exactly. Can you imagine swapping the name from Mozilla to Google, and donors to advertisers? People would call bloody murder on Google. Google is too big and i
by guardiangod 2y ago
Exactly. Can you imagine swapping the name from Mozilla to Google, and donors to advertisers? People would call bloody murder on Google. Google is too big and is a corporation? What if this happened to Google back in 2001? Would people still trust Google as the webs search engine?
Edit: and the post is gone from the front page. No controversial topic folks.
- Affric 2y agoYep, you have pretty clearly outlined that Mozilla in the late 2010s when it’s underperforming and the CEO is blowing up a donor relationship is very different to upstart Google in 2001 blowing up relationships with advertisers.
- BrendanEich 2y agoExcept the "mid 2010s" (not "late") story is made up b.s. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072908
- Affric 2y agoI realise that you're probably not going to read this but that was a glorious response. Thank you for sharing your reply with me.