I believe that most Mozillians regret that there hasn't been an official message from the board expressing our support for Brendan. However, you need to realize that this is not how Mozilla works. Mozilla is, at its core, a grassroots organization.
If you want to see what Mozilla thinks, look at the blogs of the Mozilla community (http://planet.mozilla.org). You will need to scroll back a few days to see the articles that were written before Brendan's resignation, but you will see many of us (including myself), standing for Brendan's rights, regardless of our political views. Or look at the Tweets of the Mozilla community members. You will find the support. Did we succeed at making our support outvoice OKCupid's campaign, the 70.000+ signatures of the petition to oust Brendan, and the newspapers that were more interested in headlines than in fact checking? Clearly not. But we tried. I, for one, was not planning to stop there. We were getting ready for a long campaign to get the word out and gather support but that didn't happen. As far as I can tell, Brendan's resignation took Mozilla by surprise – and left us "pinning against the wall", as you mention. So, in hindsight, there are definitely things that we could have done better. But not fighting for Brendan's right? I plead not guilty. Best regards, David On 4/8/14 11:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > You excuse yourself from responsibility index the guise that he resigned. > Right. Correct thinking and action would have been to realize that stage one > thinking was going to take you down the rat hole you find yourselves in now. > By going beyond stage one thinking you would have realized that caving to gay > community agitators, both external and in your own ranks, would inevitably > lead to pinning you against the wall on freedom of association and political > speech. The right thing to do, the courageous thing to do, would have been > to rally around fundamental rights a of all Americans by rallying around your > CEO so he wouldn't have felt he had to resign. > > I would think that a company so intimately involved in communication would be > particularly sensitive to choosing free political speech over a narrowly > focused, special interest based interest in government meddling in the > definition of marriage. Free speech and especially freedom of political > speech are, essential to all open and honest political discourse. OKCupid's > fascistic attempt to silence opposing opinion wasn't the worst mistake that > was made. The worst mistake was for the board of Mozilla to not realize that > they would be seen as sacrificing the universal right free political speech > on the alter of political correctness. > _______________________________________________ > 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
