Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
by fragmede on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:39PM
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Saying "jwz worked at Mozilla" totally understates his role in writing one of the original web browsers, Netscape Navigator, and his part in the creation of Mozilla.org, among other things. It's like saying Bill Gates worked at Microsoft, or that Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked at Google. Thus Brave supplanting Firefox could metaphorically be seen as Mr Eich supplanting jwz. (That's a huge "if", mind you)
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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
by BrendanEich on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @04:17PM
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What a fractured fairy tale. jwz and I were true co-founders of Mozilla (see my reply nearby just posted). But jwz quit after a year:
https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html
I led Mozilla on all tech decision making from 1998 through 2014.
Does this mean I was "supplanting" myself by doing Brave? No. In doing Brave, I certainly was not supplanting jwz, who had nothing to do with Firefox (born as mozilla/browser in 2001, over two years after jwz quit).
Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
by fragmede on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:58PM
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Thank you for the clarification! (I should be more careful how I phrase things. I didn't expect a personal response from a celebrity like yourself who's part of history and the anestory!)