Ten years ago this week, Brendan #Eich was forced to resign as CEO of #Mozilla.
Article on First Things https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/04/the-anti-fragile-brendan-eich
(and my own blogpost from that time https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/tocqueville-on-the-freedom-of-discussion-in-america.html).
Seems to me like kicking somebody who is already down, and one-sided accounts are always suspicious to me (and yes, I hate that Brave is based on Chromium). However, I don’t know enough to be able to say more. I have added the link to this to my blogpost, and that's probably all I can do about that.
@mcepl @djasa Talking about "one-sided" under a blogpost that compares Eich to a literal Jesus Christ.
I don't want to discount his immense contribution to the open web, but this seems a little over the top.
And talking about someone who "is already down," Eich has a net worth of approx. 1 billion USD and runs a very successful company. I understand why he is still bitter about Mozilla, but I don't see his life as being destroyed by it.
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