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- Daniel Dickey
- STREAMING God's Thoughts
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Series: STREAMING God's Thoughts - Volume 1 – Issue 2
Area: Internet
Time to Read: 5 minutes
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” — Joshua 1:9
Imagine if your values and beliefs put your job in jeopardy? Would you hesitate to make them known? If it put your livelihood at risk, would you tend to keep your faith private? What if donating to a conservative cause meant that you would be verbally attacked, and protestors would call for a boycott of a company you cofounded? Would you go ahead and donate publicly? Privately?
For Brendan Eich these are not hypothetical questions. A well-known pioneer in the tech industry, Eich worked for Netscape in 1995 where he created the JavaScript programming language which allowed websites to break away from static pages and come alive with interactive content. He later cofounded Mozilla, developers of the Firefox web browser, and was made the CTO.