I lament the day in 1994 when #Netscape executives ordered #BrendanEich to dump #Scheme and design a new, Java-like scripting language that became "The Abominable #JavaScript".

Had Scheme been allowed to drive the browser as Eich originally intended, a cousin of #Emacs would be running the #Web today.

Well into the late 1990s, I used Emacs as my IDE, calendar, organiser, mail client, and web browser. Fun times....

@badgrandpa I'm not going to tell you what you should do about China. I'm telling you why I remind people that Brave is a bit of software funded by VC's to keep a bigot employed.

I get that you may be cool with that. I'm not. And not enough people know who the CEO is or why Brave was founded.

Also, democracy nor freedom of speech have anything to do with this discussion. I am not the government. I am exercising my rights to call him out as a shit person, publicly.

#brave #brendaneich

Just a reminder that the guy behind @bravebrowser @brave was kicked from Mozilla for being a bigoted piece of shit, and that he continues to be a piece of shit attacking the health care workers who saved millions of lives during the pandemic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html

#covid #brave #brendaneich

The other day I was catching up with an old friend who had spent some time working at #Mozilla , from whom I learned about
#BrendanEich , who co-founded it. After ultimately becoming its CEO, in that role he lasted 11 days.

Though my friend described him as a nice guy, to me he seems like a spineless tool of the Catholic church who acted apologetically against democracy.

He then founded #Brave .

Overall, I like Mozilla #Firefox and Brave #browsers , and prefer them to #Google #Chrome (for its apparent lack of privacy). But getting to know this guy's politics prompted me to install #Opera and #Vivaldi .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

@techlore To add to this, I guess he left and moved head developer to someone else, but is still projecting that he hasn't done anything wrong in terms of treating people with disrespect…

Techlore was right in his video about people reflecting products; Look at #Mozilla when #BrendanEich became CEO, and it was known he donated to Prop8 and supporting people; employees and media were pissed. You can't promote freedom and rights for everyone, and then try to limit them for a demographic…

@eticadigitale
@lealternative

Stando a quanto riportato su Wikipedia ( https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Controversie ) l'amministratore delegato (CEO) di #Brave #BrendanEich nel 2014 avrebbe finanziato politici omofobici e nel 2020 si sarebbe schierato apertamente come #novax

Cosa ne pensate? Bisognerebbe tenerne conto nella scelta di un browser alternativo/etico a #microsoftedge ?

Just deleted my Brave browser.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/business/media/ai-chatbots-right-wing-conservative.html

#Brave #ChatGPT #BrendanEich #LGBTQ #COVID #AI

Kind of amazing how people just forgot that Brave Software is headed by a homophobic bigot, Brendan Eich. After it came to light (when he was appointed CEO of Mozilla) he wrote a blog post in which he seemed to commit to making Mozilla a safe place for queer employees, but he never specifically said "I was wrong to support California's Proposition 8 and regret having done so." I don't assume someone has changed unless they make explicit that they have. #Brave #BrendanEich

Kann bitte jemand #BrendanEich hierher einladen? #Mastodon

Tags: #Brave #Vox #Cryptomonnaie #BrendanEich #Infogalactic #ExtrêmeDroite #FarRight

@garrett @kappazeta @aral
#BrendanEich’s (alleged or real) eccentricities and bigotries are orthogonal to the merits of #Brave wrt #privacy, or lack thereof. (In that vein, I’m surprised you didn’t mention Eich is also anti gay marriage — but of course that’s irrelevant here, too.)

@cybernomad Is the homophobia of #BrendanEich no problem any more? Did it somehow vanish?

« Le capitalisme de surveillance a trop longtemps envahi le Web et nous avons atteint un point d’inflexion critique où la confidentialité par défaut n’est plus un avantage, mais un élément indispensable. » --- Brendan Eich, créateur du navigateur Web Brave.

#Citation #CapitalismeDeSurveillance #ViePrivéé #DonnéesPersonnelles #BrendanEich #Brave

"Nous avons fait une erreur, nous sommes en train de la corriger" : le mea culpa de #BrendanEich pour les codes d' #affiliation #Brave !

https://blog.sosordi.net/2020/06/nous-avons-fait-une-erreur-nous-sommes-en-train-de-la-corriger-le-mea-culpa-de-brendan-eich-pour-les-codes-daffiliation-brave.html

#securite #NavigateurWeb