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Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
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I mean, the neolib Californian ideals of the internet was anarchist so always anti-gov but not anti-corporate. That's how you end up with compromise points in the Mozilla manifesto like this:
Principle 9
Worth mentioning that Eich came from the Netscape days and was highly influential on a technical level.
Oh yeah for sure. Foundational on the browser, and with developing JavaScript. But a shit person. I guess the Prop8 business was finally a bridge too far, PR-wise
Yeah, of course. I'm not defending Eich, just some insight on how he got there :P