David, If I understand message correctly, you believe that Brendan resigned because of protests inside Mozilla. I would like to convince you that this is not the case.
A few employees of Mozilla voiced their opposition against Brendan's appointment as CEO for political reasons, but we are talking about something like 4 employees out of a thousand. Far more supported Brendan, regardless of their own political views. If you need proof, you only need to look at Planet Mozilla, our blog aggregator, which serves as the de facto voice of the Mozilla community (http://planet.mozilla.org – you'll have to scroll back a few days, of course). Brendan did not resign in reaction to protests inside Mozilla. Brendan resigned in reaction to a media campaign organized largely by OKCupid, with a petition that gathered 75000+ signatures in three days, protests in front of Brendan's office, and generally a campaign of boycott and smear and threats against both Brendan, Mozilla and Mozillians. If you have any question, we will do our best to answer them. Best regards, David On 18/04/14 02:53, fishseale...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi M., > > "1. Brendan was not fired and was not asked by the Board to resign. Brendan > voluntarily submitted his resignation. The Board acted in response by > inviting him to remain at Mozilla in another C-level position. Brendan > declined that offer. The Board respects his decision." > > Do you really think the general public buys the above statement? Why were > there protests over Mr. Eich's beliefs? President B. Obama held the same > beliefs in the same year Mr. Eich made a small donation to an organization > that shared his beliefs and our President's beliefs. This is a first > amendment issue to me and thousands (or, maybe tens of thousands) of others. > To have left wing groups protest to the point of Mozilla not backing Mr. Eich > is cowardly and somewhat spineless. Remember, there are more people who share > Mr. Eich's beliefs than there are those that oppose his beliefs. You made a > very bad business decision by backing America's "controversial" > """minority"""group(s). Sorry, but I'll never be a part of the Mozilla family > again. Your social belief systems, and mine, are not the same. I'll shop > elsewhere. > > "we remain committed to a free, open web." > > What you really mean by saying, "free and open..." is free and open as long > as you believe what we believe.... Nice! Where's the "diversity tolerance" > factor, here? > > Respectfully, > Captain David R. -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla
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