On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:40 AM, 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.
Thunderbird used to be actively developed by the Mozilla corporation, but that stopped about 2 years ago and it is now entirely developed and maintained by volunteers. So boycotting Thunderbird would only hurt those volunteers. Firefox is more complicated. It is worked on by employees of the corporation, but a lot of the work is done by volunteers that are not employed by Mozilla. They willingly spend their free time helping Mozilla advance its mission, which is described here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/. Furthermore, the revenues that Mozilla corporation makes from Firefox go toward a lot of other non-commercial efforts. One example is WebMaker (see webmaker.org), which is an educational initiative aimed at teaching people how the web works. If you still wish to boycott Firefox and Thunderbird, it is certainly your right to do so. But I hope you can see that Mozilla is not your typical corporate enterprise, and the effect of boycotts are similarly atypical. In particular, they affect many people outside the corporation who had nothing to do with Brendan Eich's tenure as CEO of the corporation. Thanks for listening. Nick _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
