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Brendan Eich was fired for opposing gay marriage, then went on to create Brave, which is yet another Chromium wrapper just with bad crypto monetization and othe
by mcpar-land 1y ago
Brendan Eich was fired for opposing gay marriage, then went on to create Brave, which is yet another Chromium wrapper just with bad crypto monetization and other scummy practices.
- tomstockmail 1y agoCouldn't imagine what Mozilla would be like today if he stayed around and tried to integrate crypto. At the end of the day, main post shows Firefox engineering is keeping up with Chrome which is a feat no other browser has accomplished.
- mcpar-land 1y agoFor the record I also dislike the top brass at Mozilla for the same reasons I dislike Eich - trendchasing instead of making a good browser. Firefox is succeeding because of the engineers and despite the c-suite.
- gkbrk 1y ago> Firefox is succeeding because of the engineers By what metric is Firefox succeeding?
- BrendanEich 1y agoWe project Brave MAU (going up) will pass Firefox (going down) this October.
- BrendanEich 1y agoOn "trend-chasing", a false charge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44546212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44546212
- sunaookami 1y ago>Brendan Eich was fired for opposing gay marriage This gets really tiresome to rebuke. He supported a proposition that was supported by the MAJORITY of the citizens at the time and that was already six years old when we became Mozilla CEO. Some people wrote hit pieces even though he even distanced himself from it. He was not fired, he stepped back voluntarily.
- BrendanEich 1y agoYes, Mozilla and I agree that I was not fired -- which would have been illegal in California under CA Labor Law 1101/1102. Why do a relative few on HN insist on this false claim? It seems to make them feel better about Mozilla (one reply nearby in this page says so explicitly). Reaction to a guilty conscience?