Hi Charles, thank you for taking the time to write instead of just silently turning your back.
I personally am, and as far as I can tell everyone else at Mozilla is, deeply troubled and saddened by the events of the last few weeks. One of several crucially important points that have been widely misreported is Brendan Eich being fired for his views: he wasn't fired, but decided to resign. His donation to Proposition 8 was known since 2012, and yet the Mozilla Corporation's board decided to give him two promotions since: first to Senior Vice President of Technology, and then to CEO. Here is an essay by a colleague of mine, who shares your views on marriage (to the extent that I know what your and his views actually are, at least): http://blog.gerv.net/2014/04/your-ire-is-misdirected/ And here is an official list of questions and answers about what happened and what did not happen: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignation/ thank you for your time, till On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Charles Mathews <[email protected]> wrote: > To let you both know that your childishness over Eich's donation prompted > me to drop Firefox after more years than I'd care to remember. I'm now > using Chrome. I haven't decided what to do about Thunderbird yet. I liked > both Firefox and Thunder, but to fire someone for this is more that I can > accept. I don't care anymore one way or the other about the marriage issue. > It's sad to see, but marriage is becoming more and more irrelevant. We've > been married for 42 years, and it used to mean something. > > At Mozilla and OKcupid, free thinking and opinion don't exist. Mozilla > should have kept Eich and fired the board and anyone else that howled about > this insignificant issue. > > Even worse, OKcupid founder Sam Yagan supported an anti-homosexual > marriage candidate in Utah ($500). Shouldn't he also be fired? Hypocrisy > anyone?? > > A photographer in New Mexico declined to cover a lesbian wedding, and the > government is fining her and likely putting her out of business -- the same > for a baker in Colorado who sells his baked goods to anyone, but not > wedding cakes to same-sex weddings. So much for freedom of religion. > > From what I can tell, Eich was really the heart of Mozilla from the > beginning, and is the best person for the job. > > C. Mathews, 75 years old and watching our freedom fade away... > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
