Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
I understand that Mr. Eich resigned, but I am fairly certain that the
resignation was aggressively pursued by Mozilla's board. Moreover, Mozilla's
hypocritical explanation of the resignation was reprehensible.
Why are you so certain? I don't mean to be rude with that question, I
am genuinely curious why you think that is.
Last week, I witnessed meetings in which the members of the board
explained that they pleaded with Brendan to stay on in some capacity,
repeatedly, to the point where he got angry with them. I wasn't in the
room when this happened, so I can't prove it's true. But it is
information directly from the people who were in the room.
If I've made any incorrect speculations, please tell me. And
yes, I know. Hindsight is 20/20.
tldr; What the board did was at the wrong time.
Brendan resigned due to the untenable situation, which it
was and to be honest, it still is. Why? People's opinions have
now been made known. The environment has changed pretty
radically. Did his resignation change people's opinions of him? Not
that I know; but I'm guessing, no. So opinions are still the same
during his tenure as CEO and post tenure. The pain he suffered during
him being the CEO and his subsequent resignation cannot be healed
within the few meetings he had with the board(at least I don't think
so). Physical wounds take time to heal. Emotional wounds take
longer. (Just an observation. Not really sure if this is true.)
Given that, and the fact that perceptions of Mozilla has
changed (arguably worst for Brendan), was it really a good priority to
ask him to stay? Would it not be appropriate to make changes in the
environment and people's perception of Mozilla and of him, before
asking him to return? But what kind of changes? At this moment,
I don't know. I'm just asking.
Can the environment be returned to what it was when Brendan was
the CTO?
Can hurt be made 'unhurt' without hurting more?
Can people forget what happened?
However, Mozilla is not the same. No amount of changes internally
can make it the same. The 'untenable' situation was externally caused
(provoked by an internal source on an external medium). The effect?
Internal and external changes in perception. So to get it back to the
same, Mozilla needs to change both external and internal forces. But
since we're talking about people's beliefs (which is really what
started this whole thing), it's really not doable in the short term;
Long term? That's a different matter. Unfortunately, Mozilla's
current priorities lie in the immediate short term.
Best Regards,
Edmund
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