Ze'ev, Thanks for voicing your concern. Your analysis is interesting but I believe that the situation is very different.
By and large, employees of Mozilla reacted in support for Brendan, regardless of their own views. There were a few exceptions (4 employees that I know of), but if you look at the blogs and tweets of Mozillians, you will find a large majority defending Brendan. In retrospect, there are certainly more things that Mozilla as an organisation could have done, but I believe that we were all taken by surprise by Brendan's resignation. I don't think anybody expected him to resign as CEO, or when he did to leave Mozilla rather than stay in another of the top-level leadership positions. Best regards, David On 18/04/14 00:18, Ze'ev Wurman wrote: > Today I got a nice email from someone inside Mozilla, in response to my angry > post elsewhere, explaining Mozilla's actions. He ended his email with: > > "Open dialogue is an important part of Mozilla's commitment to open, honest > and community-driven communication, and we remain committed to a free, open > web." > > In the spirit of open dialogue, let me share here my response to him. > > Ze'ev > > --------- > Dear ..., > > I appreciate your position yet I remain convinced that Mozilla's behavior was > despicable. > > Mozilla caved in to public pressure about one of its employees' personal > beliefs. Instead of publicly stepping forward and defending its CEO, Mozilla > allowed him to take the fall for the company. That he chose to do so speaks > volumes for his personal integrity and his love for Mozilla, yet it does not > absolve the board for its cowardice. > > This is no different from Khomeini issuing a fatwa on Salman Rushdie and the > publication houses expecting him to withdraw his book. That the publishers > didn't ask him to do it is a tribute to their beliefs in individual rights > and human dignity. Contrast that with Mozilla's board cowardly behavior. > > This is not much different from McCarthyism that expected workplaces to > "voluntarily" not employ people associated with communism, or having friends > among them, in the 1950s. That McCarthyism is now universally condemned is a > tribute to American society. I hope that Mozilla's board will be similarly > condemned in the future. > > Until such condemnation happens, I will not use Mozilla, I will recommend to > people to uninstall Mozilla, and I will speak against Mozilla at every > opportunity that I have. > > In fact, if you and your colleagues have any personal dignity left, you will > consider resigning from a company behaving in such despicable way. > > Regards, > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > governance@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla
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