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[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, the neolib Californian ideals of the internet was anarchist so always anti-gov but not anti-corporate. That's how you end up with compromise points in the Mozilla manifesto like this:

Commercial involvement in the development of the internet brings many benefits; a balance between commercial profit and public benefit is critical.

Principle 9

Worth mentioning that Eich came from the Netscape days and was highly influential on a technical level.

[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Worth mentioning that Eich came from the Netscape days and was highly influential on a technical level.

Oh yeah for sure. Foundational on the browser, and with developing JavaScript. But a shit person. I guess the Prop8 business was finally a bridge too far, PR-wise

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, of course. I'm not defending Eich, just some insight on how he got there :P