On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Dennis Culley <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Mr. Brendan Eich is an important and highly valued member of the Mozilla > family. Definitely. > We are sorry he has left his position as CEO because of a small, but vocal > minority of persons who, ironically, wish to use intolerance to suppress > the personal views of others. That's generally the sentiment that everyone I've talked to shares, though posting it with such language would probably fan the flames unnecessarily. > Mozilla actively encourages and supports tolerance and inclusiveness in > all that we do. Yep. > As a corporation, we neither agree nor disagree with our employees > personal views. This is not correct. The Mozilla Corporation explicitly supports Marriage Equality. https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2014/03/29/on-mozillas-support-for-marriage-equality/. For what it's worth, this is pretty much required these days for an organization with headquarters in the silicon valley. > If Mr. Eich chooses, we would be happy to welcome him back to his former > position." > To CTO, most definitely. But while I think 98% of Mozillians wish Brendan was still CEO, he would be the first to say that putting him in the CEO role has the very unfortunate affect of making Mozilla the target of a lot of hatred. And he's probably the most passionate believer that the Mozilla Mission is too important to risk this kind of distraction. On another note. Wouldn't it be appropriate for Mozilla to at least censure > those employees who used the Mozilla name to voice those intolerant > positions? > They're taking some amount of flak, certainly. But I think it's important to recognize that the only way to stop the cycle of attacks is for one side to actually start tolerating the other, cease calls for retribution, and seek reconciliation. Just my 2c, bholley _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
