On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 4:30 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Just another example of how Liberals only support Freedom of Speech when they > agree with what's being said. You say something the Left doesn't like and you > will find it necessary to "retire" or "step down" or some other euphemism for > being run out of town on a rail. > > It's too bad. I'm going to have to find another browser and another email > client. (I really like Thunderbird.) But alas, y'all have brought the same > sort of intelligence you use for political issues to bear on your business > decisions. > > I was perfectly happy to use your products regardless of your leftist > ideology because you weren't pushing it in my face. Well, if you're previous > CEO can't have his own views, I can't have your products on my computer ... > or any computer I support. Nor can I in good conscious recommend your > products to others. Too bad. > > I hope your leftist ideology works out for you.
Thanks for taking the time to let us know how you feel. Mozilla's mission is outlined in the manifesto, which is available here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/. I admit to being surprised at the idea that it might be a leftist ideology; if anything I would describe it as being more libertarian in nature. Anyway, it's probably not worth splitting hairs over that. As for finding another browser and email client: doing so is entirely within your rights. You might, however, be interested to know that Thunderbird has been maintained almost entirely by volunteers since July 2012. The Mozilla *corporation* (of which Brendan Eich was CEO) has been providing only incidental infrastructure support since then, such as providing servers for hosting the code repositories. (See https://blog.mozilla.org/beyond-the-code/2012/07/09/about-the-future-of-thunderbird/ for some more details about this.) This means that the Mozilla corporation does not make any money from Thunderbird. Boycotting Thunderbird does nothing to punish the Mozilla corporation, or its board of directors, or its employees. But it does punish volunteers who had nothing to do with Brendan Eich's appointment and resignation. As for Firefox: Mozilla employees do work on it, and Mozilla corporation does earn revenues from it. But plenty of non-employees, i.e. volunteers, also work on it. And part of the money made from Firefox goes into projects like WebMaker (https://webmaker.org/) which is dedicated to teaching people how the web works. In other words, Mozilla's not your typical company driven by revenues and profit, and so the effects of boycotting Firefox are more complicated than they first appear. Thanks for listening. Nick _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
