The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board…

Of course I can’t comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can’t figure out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

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    As a reminder, Eich was turfed from Mozilla for joining an anti-LGBT hate campaign (and thus alienating a whole lot of developers, sponsors, and users); and his So Brave browser pushed NFTs and stole money via referral fraud.

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      crypto, homophobia, fits in with conservatives they all believe in these types of scams. either they buy into crypto, or they are peddling it-themselves.

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      Look, fool me sixteen times, shame one you. Fool me twenty six times, shame on you. We won’t get fooled again.

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    This spineless mouth breather just realised there’s a buck to be made by glazing other alt-right mouth breathers. At least he can finally be himself now. Thankfully, his product is just google chrome repackaged and thereby sucks major ass.

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      just realised

      “Just”? No, he’s always been open about this, and that’s why his appointment as Mozilla CEO was so controversial in 2014, and why the board revolted and he ended up resigning 11 days into his tenure.

      The whole origin story of Brave is steeped in right wing politics.

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    brave is just chromium, i wonder when google wants to cut them off down the line.

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    Oh right - that’s why I keep not installing Brave. I knew it was something and then I forget.

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    Right wing asshole shows to the world again that they never improved and are even more of a right wing asshole.

    This is why I never used Brave anything longer than a brief look. Fuck this dude, I’m glad Mozilla removed him.

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    For a non-native speaker of english this reads like a core dump. I have zero idea what this dude is even talking about.

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    I understood what he said. Strip out some rude terms and it sounds accurate. The comments here sound like someone shouted “squirrel” to a pack of rabid dogs.

    I also lack common sense and am posting this comment. In my feeble defense I really don’t know the guy, and suspect he likes baiting others

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      Which is accurate? It reads like an unhinged paranoid conspiracist. Do you think Geroge Soros runs mozilla? Do you think it’s being controlled by federal agents?

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            The original op took some things out of context, Ford, last I checked, was not a bastion of the left. He names big donors.

            Then he describes how that money trickles down; and the last I checked the not so polite description is more accurate than not.

            I don’t mind people bashing bad guys here; and I’m sure this fellow has spent years raiding your hackles. But some people like me, it’s just embarrassing to read

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          You said it “sounds accurate” then complained about people’s criticism of it. You didn’t actually give any detail about what’s accurate about it or try to explain it in terms that aren’t “rude”.

          So my reading comprehension is fine, it’s just your ability to actually explain what it is you agree with (in terms that aren’t “rude”) is lacking.

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            Ok:

            • list of donors that are not all left
            • parent organizations that get money from above
            • mozilla gets money from parents

            Op latches onto one donor; pulls some other stuff out , and the crowd goes wild

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              Okay, but what’s the bad part here? That’s just a very generic overview of how donating works.

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                The bad part is four things:

                • the op either deliberately or legitimately did not understand what was being said
                • the vast majority of the comments just read what the op wrote and not what was said
                • having this many comments out of whack with this many upvotes gives ammunition to the bigots
                • this is a tech forum ??