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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. Re:Welcome back, Brendan by davester666 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    um, shouldn't he be apologizing to us for Javascript...

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  2. Re:Welcome back, Brendan by Joce640k · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why?

    The name, for starters. How much untold confusion has that caused?

    Then there's the language....

    Still, JavaScript isn't any worse than all those other languages that the BASIC programmers of the world seem to prefer. Even if JavaScript hadn't 'won' it would have been something similar. Better the devil you know.

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