Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook

Re:Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook by BrendanEich on Friday October 18, 2019 @12:26AM (#21288685)

Firefox Quantum was started in fall 2016, more than two years after I left: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum.

Quantum (or part of it; much good work done in C++ code too) is based on Rust and Servo, projects for which I was sole executive sponsor from 2010 onward: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12224047.

It's fair to say Rust and Servo would not exist as such if I hadn't been at Mozilla.

I'm among the actual founders of mozilla.org, we started working on it in fall 1997. Earliest wayback snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/19981202152141/http://www.mozill...

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Re:Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook by djsumdog on Friday October 18, 2019 @09:36AM (#21291222)

Well now I feel like an ass. I apologize. That's what I get for just believing what I read in another HN comment somewhere without doing the research. The wayback link does take me back.

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Re:Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook by BrendanEich on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:39PM (#21294467)

What other HN comment?

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