On 4/5/14, 12:26 PM, »Q« wrote: > In <news:[email protected]>, > Jorge Villalobos <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 4/4/14, 11:01 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>> The truly intolerant Board members had already >>> resigned when Mr Eich was appointed CEO. Are those intolerant Board >>> members going to be reinstated on to the Mozilla Board? >> >> The board members who resigned didn't do so because of Brendan's >> beliefs. They had already planned to leave the board and they just >> timed it so that they could do one of their key roles (elect a CEO) >> and then leave. This fact has been widely misrepresented by the press. > > Unless the New York Times is misquoting him, Lilly has tied his > decision to resign directly to Eich's elevation to the CEO position. > > <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/05/technology/personality-and-change-inflamed-crisis-at-mozilla.html> > > Mr. Lilly, now a venture capitalist with Greylock Partners, resigned > from the Mozilla board two weeks ago, ahead of Mr. Eich’s > appointment. “I left rather than appoint him,” he said, declining to > elaborate further. > > Note though that he did *not* tie it to Eich's support of Prop 8. >
Yes, you're right about that. As far as we know none of them resigned due to his beliefs, and one did resign due to his selection, but for a different reason. I can't find the quote now, but I believe it had to do with him being more on the technical side rather than the people management side. Jorge _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
