The Economist on Mitchell Baker

Sara Chan writes "The Economist has a story about a trapeze artist who, in her spare time, is the Chief Lizard Wrangler at a non-profit. You perhaps know her as Mitchell Baker, leader of Firefox." From the article: "Ms Baker gradually found herself the leader of this project. Perhaps this is because she is a somewhat unusual member of the Netscape diaspora. For a start, she is a woman in a community populated, as one (male) colleague puts it, by geeky males with 'spare time and no social life'. Ms Baker herself has never even written code. She studied Chinese at Berkeley, and then became a lawyer--her role at the old Netscape was in software licensing. On all technical matters, she defers to Brendan Eich, her chief geek."

Re:Amazingly socially unsophisticated.

[keester]

Socially inept? Maybe that explains why she gets along with so many geeks? Are you a geek? Are you at the wrong website?

well...

[know1]

even though she doesn't write any code, they figured having a woman telling the developers what to do would be the best way to get them to obey as they were used to taking orders off their mothers/wives

i kid, i kid, posting this from firefox, keep up the good work guys

Re:Amazingly socially unsophisticated.

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't think you are being loyal to Mozilla by supporting someone who is so obviously not suited to be a leader.

Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Geroge Dubya is just as unsophisticated, has given many more highly embarrassing interviews, has practically no knowledge whatsoever, and also gives the impression that he needs to be replaced by someone more capable. And yet he's the leader of.... ...damn, you're right after all!

Re:Amazingly socially unsophisticated.

[Anonymous Coward]

This is not a troll.

Then allow me to congratulate you on a remarkable imitation