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"besides, people complaining about it are quite dumb: eich has been a major player in firefox since the birth of firefox. so basically, nothing has changed - hi
by omni 13y ago
"besides, people complaining about it are quite dumb: eich has been a major player in firefox since the birth of firefox. so basically, nothing has changed - him being ceo or not."
Except he's CEO now. The leader of the company. The public face that the company puts forward. The person that all the other employees are supposed to look up to.
Other than that, nothing's changed.
- vacri 13y agoPreviously he was CTO of the same tech company - not exactly a minor CxO position with few people looking to him.
- agapos 13y agoNever understood this "face of company" stuff Americans are so obsessed with... if he wouldn't have took that job, but kept working on a similarly influential position as he did up till date, no one would be making these "boycott Mozilla" self-advertisements, just as they didn't do anything alike before, right? Does all this mean that people care more about someone's three titular letters instead of his behaviour and actions in his position?
- zobzu 13y agoif anything, mitchell is the face of the company, not the CEO. The CEO is the executive officer. Before that, he was CTO. Not exactly a nobody. The board has final say on everything, and mitchell seems to be the most active board member. I also tend to personally align with her opinions, I think she's great.