Thank you Emma! As someone that has poured my heart into mozilla for the past 14 years, your email warmed my heart.
/ Jonas On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Emma Irwin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
