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Thanks for the insider viewpoint. Something felt really wrong about how Brendan Eich was ousted.

I now understand it was the first instance of the cancel culture I witnessed.




Brendan getting ousted was the beginning of the end. A brilliant engineer cancelled for politically correct reasons that had nothing to do with engineering or technology. Mozilla destroyed the company through HR.




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