While I am disappointed that the board has not [yet] published a public announcement supporting Brendan, I have never heard of any corporation issuing a resolution such as the one you describe. Does this really happen?
More generally, I know that the board wanted to keep Brendan a part of Mozilla even if he could not stay as CEO. It is my understanding that Brendan rejected the offers. Best regards, David On 4/8/14 6:05 PM, [email protected] wrote: > The board, as a symbolic gesture of unity and confidence in its original > decision to appoint him could have made a public announcement that it > continued to have confidence in him and was holding his resignation in > abeyance or flat out rejecting it. The Board then steps into the line of > fire to help protect him, as best possible from the abuse and harassment. > Mr. Eich, of course, as are all of us, is then free to continue or not as he > sees fit. A resolution rejecting a resignation of a high level executive is > always a symbolic gesture of support, saying we do not feel you need to do > this and we are behind you. > > As has been clearly demonstrated, it is a matter of appearance, primarily, > and now Mozilla finds itself in a very unpleasant situation whereby they have > alienated nearly everyone. And most worrisome, is the potential > repercussions of this go far beyond Firefox and Mozilla or the groups pro or > con, and go to the meat of what we are and are to become as a society. > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
