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JavaScript Inventor Brendan Eich Named New CEO of Mozilla

Posted by samzenpus on from the man-with-the-plan dept.

darthcamaro (735685) writes "Mozilla today announcedthat Brendan Eich would be its new CEO . Eich had been serving as Mozilla's CTO and has been with Mozilla since day one — literally day one. Eich was a Netscape engineer when AOL decided to create the open-source Mozilla project in 1998. The choice of Eich as CEO seems obvious to some, after a string of recent short-tenured CEOs at Mozilla's helm."

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  1. Javascript: the worst Internet development. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Eich? Man!

  2. Possible backlash over Prop 8 support by CritterNYC · · Score: 5, Informative

    There may be some backlash, such as RareBits pulling their app from the Firefox Marketplace, due to Brendan Eich's support of the anti-gay marriage Prop 8 initiative in CA. Eich publicly responded back in 2012. The issue is being discussed on Hacker News as well.

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    Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc