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authorMatěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>2024-04-17 09:57:39 +0200
committerMatěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>2024-04-17 09:57:39 +0200
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Add the revisionist version of the story of Brendan Eich.
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@@ -146,15 +146,26 @@ whole story again ended the same, most extreme participants in
the Kulturkampf won, and Mozilla lost_ in my opinion one of the
most brilliant leaders in the industry.
+What would de Tocqueville and Voltaire say?
+
+**{updated 2024-04-17}**
+
+There is now also `a revisionist version of this story`_.
+
.. _`Brendan Eich`:
https://brendaneich.com/
+
.. _wikipage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
+
.. _`the Proposition 8`:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition_8
+
.. _`some senior Mozilla developers`:
http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2014/03/25/Welcome-Brendan
+
.. _lost:
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/
-What would de Tocqueville and Voltaire say?
+.. _`a revisionist version of this story`:
+ https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112281966342068713