On Apr 7, 2014, at 11:57 AM, [email protected] wrote: > 5. Mozilla's board could have made a solid declaration that the Foundation > would not and could not be persuaded by public pressure related to a key > individual's personal (and private) political persuasions by publicly > announcing it had received Mr. Eich's resignation and rejecting it, allowing > him to continue in his position and making a clear and loud statement that > private political beliefs are not the business of the Mozilla Foundation and > its officers, whether they are in agreement with them or not. > > The simple facts are, that the Board did not publicly reject the resignation > and did not make a "Declaration of Consciences."
Leaving aside the reality that no employer can force an employee to remain an employee, how can a board, in good conscience, refuse to allow an individual to step out of the line of fire? The situation was escalating, and there was an immense amount of strain on Brendan, largely due to a massive amount of direct abuse and harassment. As a bit of perspective, I’ve lived through a similar situation or two, on a much smaller scale, and those are among the worst points in my life. I can’t imagine how hard it was on Brendan as a human being. I can’t blame him for wanting a clean break. — Mike _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
