One of the things that would be funny if it weren't so sad is that the activists within the organization are not even employees of Mozilla Corporation. They are a handful (I know of exactly 4, there could be a few more) of employees of the Mozilla Foundation, which is a different entity, and Brendan was definitely not their CEO.
I believe that Mozilla should continue as an organization that advocates Freedom of Speech, Privacy and Education, as it was before the crisis started. I believe that we need a statement along these lines. Cheers, David On 4/8/14 11:23 AM, Dennis Culley wrote: > Reuben, > > Well said. The employees need to understand that they are responsible for > protecting the brand names no matter what part of the domain they belong to. > > Brendan did not connect his personal views with Mozilla. That was > accomplished by activist with a clear intent to punish him and the > corporation, if it continued to support him. What is amazing to me is that > some of these activists appear to be within the organization itself. Why > that is allowed to happen is a mystery to me. > > The damage has been done. It appears to me the choice is to continue the > status quo where Mozilla exists as an advocacy organization or come out with > a strong statement of inclusion and respect for all employee personal > viewpoints. The former implies that Mozilla will accept alienating a large > number of its customers, which most people would consider bad business > practice. The latter will require courage in pushing back against extremist > social manipulation of the company culture. Regardless of what many insiders > would like to think the rest of the world does not live inside what appears > to be their own cultural bubble. > > Dennis -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
