On 4/7/14 12:22 PM, Dennis Culley wrote:
The tone of this post is unambiguous in the sense that someone did something
wrong. Since Brendan was the only one to have been affected
Dennis,
I'm not sure why you conclude that Brendan was the only one affected.
A large number of people were affected, including Brendan, Mitchell, the
board members, most of Mozilla's employees (myself included), and a
number of non-employee Mozilla project contributors.
it is logical to assume that Ms. Mitchell places the blame squarely on Mr.
Eich's shoulders
I'm sorry, but I'm not seeing a basis in fact for this assumption.
What _I_ get out of the text you quoted is precisely what it says.
Mitchell is apologizing for our failure as an organization to clearly
explain that there is a difference between "CEO has some view" and "CEO
will impose this view on the entire organization and its interactions
with the world" and thus potentially head off the controversy. For some
organizations this difference does not exist, but it _does_ exist for
Mozilla. Explaining that early on might have helped. Maybe.
Here is the problem. It is clear that Ms. Mitchell is “surprised” that
someone could have views that do not support same sex marriage yet
still be inclusive and not discriminatory.
Mitchell (or Ms. Baker if you prefer to be more formal) was surprised to
find out that a particular person she had worked very very closely with
for over 15 years had views she had never even suspected he had. She
was not surprised that he was inclusive and not discriminatory: she knew
the man quite well and had observed that part firsthand.
She was also not surprised that he _could_ hold such views and still be
inclusive and nondiscriminatory. I'm sorry if it read to you like she
was; it seems pretty clear to me that the surprise was at the existence
of the views at all, not at the fact that Brendan could reconcile them
with inclusive and non-discriminatory behavior.
-Boris
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