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RobertoG
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Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec p...
>>"It is interesting to note that Brendan Eich's severance pay when he was forced out of Mozilla was just $113,000"
He was 11 days on the job, so, not so bad.
chrisco255
on Sept 23, 2020
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He was a co-founder of Mozilla. What the hell? He had been CTO before he was made CEO.
RobertoG
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I stand corrected, my bad.
pkphilip
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He was also the guy who invented Javascript
throwaway33339
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If anything he should have been fired from Mozilla for
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adjkant
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Javascript has many faults, but go look into the history of how/why it was created and given that context, it's likely many would do far worse than he did.
https://auth0.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-javascript/
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He was 11 days on the job, so, not so bad.