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As of March 31st, Mozilla has turned two decades old.
Netscape Communications made two important announcements on January 23rd, 1998:
- First, that the Netscape Communicator product would be available free of charge;
- Second, that the source code for Communicator would also be free.
On March 31st, the first developer release of the source code to Communicator was made available.
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The problem.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @01:38AM (4 children)
He funded them for a sufficient amount of money to *REQUIRE DISCLOSING IT PUBLICLY*. If there were not concerns with people providing imbalanced financial lobbying for legislative positions without having to face the public scrutiny of them, then I might agree with you. But since it is not, and he was well over the.... $200 dollar limit on providing donations without having to disclose them, he CHOSE to make his position publicly known. As a result of that choice he put his position as head of a decidedly 'liberal' organization in question when he chose to do so. The same would happen with a liberal working their way to a leadership position in an otherwise conservative organization, and has happened a few times in the last two decades that I can remember.
Point being, whether or not your private views fit with your organization's ideals, you don't make them financially and publicly discernable if you expect to attain and retain a position as the head of an organization whose social stance is opposite of your financially disclosed or publically documented political views.
Personally, given that he's the reason we have JavaScript, I would say that is reason enough he shouldn't be the head of Mozilla, and I said as much before he became president or ceo or whatever.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Sunday April 01 2018, @02:03AM
This is just the thing, it's not *supposed* to be a liberal organization. In fact it appears to be illegal for a 501(c)(3) to be political in nature. Their early documents and fund-raising certainly didn't create the expectation that this was a political organization, and scanning their current manifesto I still see nothing of a partisan nature here. Yett that's clearly what they've become. A partisan, 'progressive' democratic party front that happens to own an important codebase, and abuses it constantly.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @02:06AM
I see your point but so what?
There was nothing liberal about what went on there.
There were plenty of gays opposed to gay marriage and zero evidence presented for any professional misconduct or workplace discrimination on the part of Brendan Eich.
What exactly is the difference in saying that someone should not be head of a company for developing a dynamic, prototyped based scripting language and arriving at the same conclusion based on sexual proclivity or religious belief?
Rust sucks donkey dick though eh?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @02:24AM
tl;dr whole thread
HANG HIM!!!
p.s. what were we talking about again?
(Score: 2) by unauthorized on Sunday April 01 2018, @12:58PM
Nice try at alt history there, but the reason he was fired... *ahem* sorry, I meant "strongly encouraged to step down", was because of an artificial public outrage that forced Mozilla's hand. Maybe he would have been fired either way, but we don't have any good evidence to suggest so.
Give the guy a break, it was a different time back when JS was first implemented, nobody could have foreseen the monster it will become.