Aryeh,

Thank you for taking the time to research and understand Mozilla's
participation guidelines. If everybody else took the same effort that
you have, this discussion would be a lot more constructive.

You are 100% correct that Brendan's behaviour met the conditions of
the guidelines. Indeed, David Flanagan's eloquent explanation of what
happened (https://medium.com/p/7645a4bf8a2) quotes the exact same
section of the guidelines that you just quoted, and reaches the same
conclusion. I encourage you to read it. (David is a Mozilla employee.)

More generally, there has been a lot of simplistic and outright false
reporting on this issue, which is leading many people to reach
incorrect conclusions. Mozilla's "FAQ on CEO resignation" post
(https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignation/) may
also be helpful.

If you read both of these documents and decide that they are
untruthful, well, that's your choice. But I hope you'll see that the
situation is quite different to how it's been commonly portrayed.

Nick

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Aryeh Tanz <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are the mozilla discrimination guidelines:
> "We welcome contributions from everyone as long as they interact 
> constructively with our community, including, but not limited to people of 
> varied age, culture, ethnicity, gender, gender-identity, language, race, 
> sexual orientation, geographical location and religious views.
>
> Mozilla-based activities should be inclusive and should support such 
> diversity.
>
> Some Mozillians may identify with activities or organizations that do not 
> support the same inclusion and diversity standards as Mozilla. When this is 
> the case:
>
>     (a) support for exclusionary practices must not be carried into Mozilla 
> activities.
>     (b) support for exclusionary practices in non-Mozilla activities should 
> not be expressed in Mozilla spaces.
>     (c) when if (a) and (b) are met, other Mozillians should treat this as a 
> private matter, not a Mozilla issue."
>
> Explicitly since Brendan did not express his opposition to SS in Mozilla 
> spaces, then (c) applies and he is free to believe as he likes.
>
> Wrongful termination, mob rule, kowtowing to the 2%.  Really.  Over 4 Billion 
> people in the world think like he does, and still Mozilla wants him fired?  
> Wrong according to their own rules!
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