Hi Fred, Hi, I'm a volunteer with Mozilla. I volunteer teaching children about the web at my children's school and in my community using tools and cirriculum Mozilla has designed to make that possible I put my heart into it, I want my children and their generation to understand the web is theirs to make, direct and innovate. I want technology to be something they leverage for good, and the title of your email breaks my heart because Mozilla has been a leading the way in these efforts.
My volunteer work is not political, it's not left-wing, it's not right-wing it's just me trying to improve my community. I give back to Mozilla, because I see the tremendous value in doing so. I cannot offer you explanations or justifications for a governing group, I have no part in that. But I can tell you there is a community that cares a lot about what's happening, and about everyone impacted. I want you to understand that 'Mozilla' is made up of thousands of people just like me. We're nothing like Microsoft was or is. -Emma On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Big Fred <[email protected]> wrote: > Today I contacted three people that I had in the past convinced to switch > from IE or Chrome to FF. I persuaded them to uninstall FF because of your > culture of politically correct bigotry. After reading this list today, I > think I'll keep doing that as a hobby. Why? Because after the politically > correct witch hunt that resulted in Eich being out and radical gays being > appeased, all I see here are what come across as smug attempts to deflect > blame and just weather the storm. FF is the new IE, the boorish clod that > wants to just dissemble or stomp over any opposition in the style of Gates. > > Yes, I've seen the aggravatingly repetitive "Eich wasn't forced out, he quit" > replies which only come across as being deliberately misleading. The fact > will always remain that he is gone because radical gays wanted him gone over > his personal beliefs. > > There is also the disingenuous refusal to acknowledge that we live in a era > of politically correct witch hunts, which is why people are finally fed up. > This episode did not occur in a vacuum. Mozilla is Cracker Barrel part 2. > > There are the ever present double-standards of political correctness, such as > the calls in the moderation thread that any opposition to gay marriage should > be censored from this list. But in another thread, any employees who called > for Eich's purging should not suffer any negative consequences, because that > is presumably the good kind of intolerance on their part. > > Then we have the claims that Mozilla statements didn't mean what they said. > The chairwomans' statement that everyone reasonably interprets as "we're so > eagerly sorry that we didn't purge the intolerant bigot sooner" didn't really > mean that after all. Sure, sure... Since the tidal wave of negative backlash, > she makes no statement wanting to communicate on that, much less apologize on > that part of the 'community', does she? That makes her original meaning > doubly clear. > > > Some particular examples: > > Here's a statement that merges two very wrong approaches: "On the one hand, > someone from Engagement should talk to the petitioners and explain that we > did not fire Brendan or coerce him to resign. On the other hand, if it's not > really affecting usage, is it worth it? -Sheeri Cabral" So much for being > principled, huh? It's just a matter of what Mozilla can get away with after > all. > > Or this: > "If I understand correctly what you write, you are changing browser > because 4 employees of Mozilla have asked for the resignation of > Brendan? Or am I misunderstanding? > > Best regards, > David " > > which comes across as condescendingly mocking. > > Then there are the inevitable "let's move on" exhortations because Mozilla is > the supposed great repository of fairness and equality and tolerance of > diverse speech. That's entirely laughable, considering that the CEO was just > purged to appease radical gays. (Sure, sure... he "volunteered to be purged!") > > But wait, Eich was also encouraged to accept a humiliating demotion, so that > makes everything all right. Then there's the outright falsehood that he's > still an active part of Mozilla. > > Through it all, while many, many thousands (and growing) are infuriated over > what happened, not one person from Mozilla is. Not from the top to the > bottom, none that have overtly said so anyway. Quite a disconnect. > > So keep fiddlling, Mozilla. People are coming to believe that you are even > less trustworthy than the deceptive spies of megacorporation google. You are > making enemies and enemies have a way of multiplying. That's the same maxim > that Micro$oft arrogantly ignored all those years ago. > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
