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I just checked his Wikipedia entry. He will have to try a bit harder to become "radio-active" for potential employers...

> he's 64

That definitely puts things in a different perspective. It can't really damage his career much when his career is 20+ years old. At this point, if he doesn't have his own side gig, lots of companies, big and small, would still want him.

It also shows how brave those who were younger and ended up getting fired rather than resigning were.

Unless there's a company that is actually decent, and prides itself on having an exec that would quit on the first sign of a misdeed.

"See? You can trust us, otherwise Tim Bray wouldn't still be working here."

I don't think a single trivial misdeed but really a culmination of things leading up to it and the scale of it all that broke the camel's back.