The Economist on Mitchell Baker

Sara Chan writes "The Economist has a story about a trapeze artist who, in her spare time, is the Chief Lizard Wrangler at a non-profit. You perhaps know her as Mitchell Baker, leader of Firefox." From the article: "Ms Baker gradually found herself the leader of this project. Perhaps this is because she is a somewhat unusual member of the Netscape diaspora. For a start, she is a woman in a community populated, as one (male) colleague puts it, by geeky males with 'spare time and no social life'. Ms Baker herself has never even written code. She studied Chinese at Berkeley, and then became a lawyer--her role at the old Netscape was in software licensing. On all technical matters, she defers to Brendan Eich, her chief geek."

Comments

Off topic, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

...the trapeze is strangely arousing.

Another nice Economist quote

[H4x0r Jim Duggan]

There's also a nice, and very frank, quote about software patents being used for abusive purposes.

AJAX

[Anonymous Coward]

Ahh, finally here is an expansion of that buzzword, AJAX - Async Javascript And XML! Thank you, Economist! Now I know the secret of all those karma-whores, who simply got modded insightful/interesting by simply pointing out that AJAX is based on Javascript, everytime there is any story with the AJAX word in it ;-)

Parent post is evidence of a leadership problem.

[Anonymous Coward]

Bored moderators: A discussion of a serious bug that has not been adequately investigated is not off topic. It is evidence of a leadership problem. That's what is being discussed, Mitchell Baker's leadership, or lack thereof.