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

  • @Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz
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    574 months ago

    The originator of the term is the late Terry Davis, a paranoid schizophrenic and developer of TempleOS. He used to go on angry rants about “glow in the dark CIA niggers”, or glowies for short.

      • @tjsauce@lemmy.world
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        144 months ago

        If that dude got proper support, he could have done wonders; he made animated icons for his 16-color assembly-coded OS, and a simple 3d racer! All by himself!

        • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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          34 months ago

          Yeah, he was definitely talented. It’s unfortunate that he was not only schizophrenic, but also had followers that made it worse.

      • Snot Flickerman
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        4 months ago

        Damn, I didn’t know he got Chris Chan’d. Ugh. So fucking tragic.