The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board…
Of course I can’t comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can’t figure out.
Not his first time having a public melty over woke themes. What is it about tech CEOs and advanced brain rot? Are they getting too high on their own products?
“You should consider the effects of your words and actions on other people.”
Tech CEOs:
Yes and they literally have turned the idea of Admin Rights into the Divine Right of Kings.
“I know how to be an admin, thus I should run the fucking world.”
When Cisco helped roll out The Great Firewall of China, they made great pains to explain that all they were actually doing was setting up the hardware and software to do what they were already designed to do. Computers and computer networks were never designed to be democratic in nature at all. Now that computers run the world, these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.
And are perfectly willing and sometimes even capable to burn the world down for the position
“Better to be king of the ash pile than have to listen to Tom in accounting talk about his goddamned shitheap of a boat again on Monday.”
Engineer Syndrome. You get mildly good enough at writing Javascript to sell a product and then assume that means you can fix all of society’s problems
The irony in this statement is deafening.
Maybe he’s jealous he’s not as rich and powerful as his ideological peer Marc Andreessen, who turned proto-Firefox from a university project (Mosaic) into a company (Netscape)…
Andreessen had fuck-all to do with Firefox. He had worked on Netscape Navigator (which changed names several times over the years and is now known as SeaMonkey), but he had left Mozilla years before Firefox, which was a from-scratch rewrite, became a thing.
In that regard – writing shit code that was best thrown out – him and Eich (the fucker who inflicted Javascript on the world) are quite similar.