2 years ago

Sure, it may have actually been around seven years ago now that https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-now-accepts-bitcoin/, but with https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1476951030638260225 last week reminding folks of this fact, it seems that the company has stepped into a pile of public relations doo doo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski, who https://www.jwz.org/about.html as “one of the founders of Netscape and Mozilla.org,” replied to the tweet and did not mince words.

Now, after Zawinski’s biting wordsmithery and the subsequent Twitter storm, it would appear that Mozilla has also decided to reconsider.

“The award is given to the programming language that has gained the highest increase in ratings in one year,” they explain.

This week, the company has not only released the https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-17-1-preview-2-is-now-available/, which includes a bunch of https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/introducing-new-git-features-to-visual-studio-2022/, it has also https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/integrated-chat-in-live-share-for-visual-studio-2022/.