Hi Jan, thank your for not silently turning your back on us.
One thing I'd ask you to consider is this: Brendan's contributions to Proposition 8 where known since 2012. Since then, he was promoted twice, first to Senior Vice President of Technology, then to CEO. Yes, everyone at Mozilla underestimated (or didn't foresee at all) the strong reactions to this last promotion. Including Brendan himself. Try putting yourself in his shoes for a moment: those 10 days before he resigned must have been the hardest time of his life. I'm pretty sure he got threats targeting himself and his family, and he was buried under a huge amount of insults. Additionally, he saw people trying to derail the project that is his life's work. Is it entirely unbelievable that he decided to step down to make all this stop? In case you haven't seen it (you probably have), here is an official collection of questions and answers about the situation: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignation/ thank you for your time, till On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:23 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. My name is Jan and I am extremely disgusted to see that Mozilla is > proclaiming to not be anti-traditional marriage when they are contributing > to gay marriage causes. (Yes, I did my homework). If you are contributing > to gay marriage causes, you are on the gay side of the fence. And that > means it is very likely that the stories about you forcing Eich to resign > are true and that you're just lying to get people to keep your products. > It's happened before, so don't be all insulted when we know the truth. > > That said, Eich was expressing personal views, and while I realize that > you don't want to offend the gay community, you should also worry about > offending the rest of us. Political Correctness is not correctness, it is > tyranny. People can't say what they think or anything that is true because > someone will get offended and sue them. I say it's time to put your big > boy pants on and learn to control your feelings and not get offended every > time someone disagrees with you. > > As for me, I will uninstall firefox from my desktop, my laptop, and my > tablet and urge my friends and family to do the same, who will then urge > their friends and family to do the same. > > Have fun going out of business. > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
