Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life
by mcantelon on Thursday February 12, 2015 @03:17PM
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Given his past contributions to the web, it's unsurprising that he still participates and people listen to him.
Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life
by stolio on Thursday February 12, 2015 @07:01PM
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The people who fought for Eich's departure like to downplay just how much knowledge he carries around in his head. I think deep down they're afraid to admit just how much damage they did to Mozilla, Firefox and the entire open source community. They still think they did a good thing.
Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life
by josephgrossberg on Friday February 13, 2015 @03:56PM
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What's something concrete that you think the entire open source community lost as a result of Eich no longer heading Mozilla?
Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life
by stolio on Friday February 13, 2015 @08:34PM
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Losing one of the most important people at one of the most important open source projects is a loss in and of itself. That was twenty years of experience and technical knowledge that walked out the door.
Losing one of the only people in a position to fight against DRM who had the will to do so is another blow. The end result as I see it is the social justice community gets a "victory", religious people at Mozilla learn they're not to take part in our political process, and those who were left gave up the fight against DRM. Not that they had a choice, how do you ride into battle short a CEO and a CTO, and while licking your wounds from a vicious boycott/smear campaign?
Firefox circa Eich on DRM: https://brendaneich.com/2013/10/the-bridge-of-khazad-drm/
Firefox post boycott on DRM: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challen...
It's kind of weird to think that Brendan Eich is still active in the web standards community, even though he's been forced to leave Mozilla. A man without a company.