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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 3 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.696s | source
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dman ◴[15 Jan 20 21:11 UTC] No.22058629[source]▶
Brendan Eich has a helpful chart of Compensation of Highest paid executive at Mozilla vs Firefox market share over time.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584/p...

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paul7986 ◴[15 Jan 20 22:16 UTC] No.22059384[source]▶
Seems odd in his tweet he noted he was unable to get funding in the valley for Brave. The guy created JavaScript and was a creator of Firefox. Don't get it ..as JS alone has contributed like how much to world economies, as well to almost every HN reader's wallet/bank.
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core-questions[dead post] ◴[15 Jan 20 22:23 UTC] No.22059460[source]▶
He got cancelled for not supporting gay marriage. Nothing he has actually personally done or will do matters in this new moral calculus.
YorickPeterse ◴[15 Jan 20 22:32 UTC] No.22059547[source]▶
If I remember correctly he didn't get fired for just not supporting gay marriage, he got fired for donating to some bill that was trying to prohibit gay marriage. That's quite the difference.
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1. jcranmer ◴[15 Jan 20 23:29 UTC] No.22060013[source]▶
He was forced to resign (the Mozilla board was actually in favor of having him stay on) for having donated to a group supporting an anti-gay-marriage bill 3 years before he became CEO. And, as far as I am aware, not giving any further indication of support in the intervening 3 years.
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2. BrendanEich ◴[16 Jan 20 01:10 UTC] No.22060716[source]▶
Hi jcranmer, please be careful. Prop 8 passed in 2008, almost six years before 2014 when I was CEO. Also, neither of us can say (for different reasons) whether I was forced, and if so, by whom. Mozilla is clear that it did not fire me, nor could it have legally:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22060643

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3. jcranmer ◴[16 Jan 20 02:08 UTC] No.22061049[source]▶
Oops, sorry, for some reason I thought the changeover happened in 2011. Must be getting old...