mcepl, to random
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Ten years ago this week, Brendan was forced to resign as CEO of .

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).

dhrystone, to random
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dhrystone, (edited ) to firefox
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I fully intend to continue to use as my primary browser. Because when it boils down to it, in a technology sense, the fact that someone invented javascript plays into things far more significantly than whether or not they personally don’t believe that honeymoons should involve swordfights. These bullshit witch-hunts need to stop. Just because someone has a different set of morals and values doesn’t mean their software is any less secure or performant or that it is somehow designed to catastrophically compromise your online security if it magically detects that you disagree with them.

itself was called on to be boycotted and the pitchforks/torches brigade were fully behind that until resigned. He threw a measly thousand bucks into something he believed in. And now he’s not there, it’s cool cool cool to use FF again. Did his beliefs make FF a worse technology? Does it for Brave? Jesus Christ, gimme a fucking break. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/04/mozilla-ceo-resignation-free-speech/7328759/

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