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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 2 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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Thorentis ◴[15 Jan 20 22:22 UTC] No.22059454[source]▶
Read more about his background and you'll see why. Cancel culture is definitely real. (There was a post here from WSJ the other day about it - wasn't great since it was more of a whinge, but there are some legitimate examples of "cancel culture" happening, and they are increasing in the tech industry).

tl;dr he was fired for having conservative beliefs, and nobody in the valley would touch him. So he went a founded Brave instead.

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eschaton ◴[15 Jan 20 22:28 UTC] No.22059513[source]▶
Don’t sanitize it, he was fired for being anti-gay.

That should make it a little clearer why funders won’t touch him (and many won’t touch his new work).

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doublekill ◴[15 Jan 20 22:44 UTC] No.22059647[source]▶
Did he not donate to a legal political cause, without publicizing it?

I doubt funders care about your opinions on gay marriage, but they do care a lot about the stink the cancel culture raised around him.

The poison seems to be applied externally.

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1. wwright ◴[15 Jan 20 23:55 UTC] No.22060227[source]▶
Legality and morality are very often unrelated; in this case, the implication is not that he did something illegal, but that he is an asshole for spending his money for the purpose of making other people’s lives worse to the benefit of nobody.

Personally, I think that’s a perfectly good reason for not giving him more money.

“Cancel culture” is many people (many of whom matter to investors in one way or another) stating that they also feel that that is a bad place to put money.

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