On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 04:11:39PM -0400, Dennis Culley wrote: > I disagree. The fact that someone works for Mozilla should have no credence > regarding their opinion on a personal matter, or does it, that seems to be > the question.
it doesn't really matter wether or not its relavent to say they work for Mozilla. If I say I work for Mozilla and Olives are awful this is clearly silly, but I don't think it implies anything about what Mozilla as an community or organization believes. while saying you work for Mozilla doesn't mean it agrees with you it does make what your saying more relavent (all be it somewhat miss leading since afaik all the people saying it weren't going to be reporting to Brendan). > Most organizations would perceive that mentioning the company name in > expressing an opinion implies a tacit approval of that opinion. In effect, > you are trying to use your credentials to support your opinion. Can you > imaging someone saying fat people are stupid, and by the way, my name is so > and so and I work for Dunkin Donuts? I don't think its really true saying your employed by X means that X agrees with whatever your saying. In fact it would be pretty silly in this case for Mozilla as a company to agree that Brendan should step down given at the time they were the ones who apointed him... > Everyone lives their life separate from the organizations they work for, at > least they should. There is no need to drag others into implicit support of a > personal view unless it was intended. In fact, this is what started the > entire fiasco for Mozilla to begin with. I don't think these people dragged Mozilla in more than say they would have dragged in all people with red hair if they said "I have red hair and I think Brendan should resign". Trev > > > > > > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:07:51 -0400 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Brendan Eich > > To: [email protected] > > > > On 4/7/14 2:40 PM, Dennis Culley wrote: > > > Most organization do not approve of employees using the company name to > > > espouse their own personal views. > > > > Most organizations suck in all sorts of ways, sure. > > > > I think there is a clear difference between saying "I work for Mozilla, > > and I think that X" and saying "Mozilla thinks that X" or "I speak for > > Mozilla and I think that X". > > > > The latter two are not acceptable in general. The former is acceptable > > in general, especially because the employment status in question is > > generally not particularly secret. > > > > -Boris > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
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