The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.

  • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    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:

    Commercial involvement in the development of the internet brings many benefits; a balance between commercial profit and public benefit is critical.

    Principle 9

    Worth mentioning that Eich came from the Netscape days and was highly influential on a technical level.

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      11 months ago

      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