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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 1 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | 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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Polylactic_acid ◴[15 Jan 20 22:52 UTC] No.22059703[source]▶
Understandable he had to go. Not many people would feel comfortable supporting a product where the profits go in to restricting their human rights.
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1. baud147258 ◴[17 Jan 20 17:45 UTC] No.22077071[source]▶
That's an entirely disingenuous way of putting this situation. Mozilla's profits are NOT the salaries of its employees - the profits are AFTER payroll. It was Eich's personal money, not Mozilla's money, and there is absolutely zero implication that Mozilla itself had the same opinions as its CEO - nor should there be. If you draw that inference, it is because you're acting as part of Cancel Culture, which is totalitarian liberalism in action.