Very well said!

On Thursday, April 3, 2014 9:24:24 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> It's certainly fine, in a legal sense, for Mozilla leadership to make either 
> an ethical and/or business decision to remove a leader for expressing an idea 
> that is either contrary to Mozilla political values or a smart move to eddy 
> out of this negative publicity news cycle.
> 
> 
> 
> However, as Mozilla surely knows, for every action there is a reaction. 
> Perhaps Mozilla will gain new customers, but they will also loose some. As a 
> former customer myself, I don't like this method of bringing employees to 
> heel for expressing their political ideas in the democratic process. It 
> appears abusive, reactionary and intolerant of true diversity of thought. The 
> right way to change a company or national culture is not to suppress contrary 
> ideas by taking away a person's job who speaks out, but to convince 
> traditionalists by education and compassion over time.
> 
> 
> 
> The use of intimidation, force and raw power against "late adopters" of new 
> ideas, in the name of tolerance, is contrary to how a healthy community 
> should function. This sort of behavior is the number one factor that is now 
> slowing the progress of true equality. Being gracious in victory to those who 
> have been defeated is the noble way forward and I'm sorry that Mozilla 
> leadership did not discern this path.

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