Besides Stallman, who inspires you the most of the major developers out there?
I personally like Brendan Eich. He stole the idea of Mosaic from the University of Illinois and created Mozilla as the "Mo[saic K]illa" that would eventually evolve into Netscape. If I recall correctly, mozilla.org was originally registered under his name and he did much of the basic groundwork programming. Mozilla was one of the first companies to release their source code as Open Source that attracted mass media attention. He would later develop JavaScript in a matter of two weeks in order to apply LISP/Scheme programming concepts to the burgeoning Java environment. The development of JS, a major backbone of modern internet applications, in such a short period of time is probably what he is best known for.
Recently, he was fired as the CEO of Mozilla because he donated $1000 to a political compaign that opposed gay marriage in California. He didn't use Mozilla funds but donated completely separately as a private citizen, but opponents at Mozilla used it against him for political reasons and pushed him out of the company. Cast out from the company that he created from the ground up, he created Brave Software. They have recently created the Brave browser which pretty much aims to undo all the harm that Javascript has created on the internet over the years. In a sense, Eich is making up for the horrors that his own creation wreaked on the internet.
That word has a different meaning based on context. You can resign willingly, or be forced out. In general, CEOs and other principals don't get fired like plebs do. If the board of directors wants them gone, they ask them to resign. You have to differentiate between that situation and one where the guy out of the blue one day decided he had enough and quit entirely based on his own volition.
Jacob Thompson
To be fair, and I say this from the position of accepting homosexuality's abnormalcy and openness to the possibility of deleterious effects of it on family and society, I don't really see "supporting traditional marriage" to exist outside the context of heterosexuality. Would such groups advocate marriage and traditional social roles regardless of sexuality, as in, research and educate about effects of marriage in society in contrast/with respect to unionlessness, childlessness, career choices, availability of divorce? Maybe; but I still see the term as rather an euphemism.
Benjamin Nguyen
Fast forward 23 years
Fucking kek. Anyone who thinks this guy "tries" to fix anything is a total fucking moron. The guy simply wants to create a monopoly by replacing all ads with his and call this "justice". No. People who use adblock (or noscript alikes for that matter) won't abondon their extensions so this guy can fill his pockets one more time.
Ethan Baker
Personally, I'm not a fan of the faggot who gave the world Javascript and was continually making bad decisions for Firefox some 6 years before quitting after embarrassing himself because he couldn't handle the gays obtaining the same rights as heterosexuals and is now trying to push literal adware. Suck more cocks OP.
