No political agenda? Endorsing gay marriage and engaging in affirmative action for gays (Ascend Project) is as political as you can get. Anyone observing Mozilla now fully expects there to be a gay litmus test for the next CEO and possibly for all new hires as well, then afterward possibly as a condition for staying hired.
Privacy? Aside from the legacy irony of the archives being hosted by the most egregious non-government spies on the planet (oops, our map-mobiles *accidentally* hacked into all open WIFIs and took their IPs and more), I wouldn't be surprised at all if at some point Firefox contains code to assemble lists of anyone who visits so-called "hate" sites, such as conservative or Christian sites. That might be inserted by some radical individual or it might even come as a request from some group. That still sounds preposterous at this point, but not if the current trends continue. After all, Eich's political donation was at one time considered to be a matter of privacy, right? Fighting for freedom? I can tell you that those opposed to what happened to Eich strongly consider that Mozilla is most definitely not the right candidate for the job. That's even more true because saying "let's move on" is akin to saying that what happened was not big deal. 11.04.2014, 00:56, "Robert Kaiser" <[email protected]>: > Adam Porter schrieb: > >> Right now, Mozilla could try to decide who it is willing to offend: those >> that demanded Eich's resignation, or those who are appalled at his >> resignation--more specifically, those who blame Mozilla for it. Whatever >> Mozilla does, some people will be offended. If Mozilla does nothing, some >> people will be offended. > > As we have no political agenda in those regards, at least as a > community, we do not want to offend any of those groups broadly, and > neither support any of them broadly. > What we want instead is to fight for making privacy and users > controlling their online lives themselves one of the cornerstones of the > Internet, creating real freedom and opportunity of choice for people > using the World Wide Web. > That agenda will also offend some people, sure, but then they are > offended by our actual values and our mission, and not by a different > political topic that is not our fight as a community and organization to > fight (even though we have people with opinions on both sides of it > within our community). > > Please let use get back to our actual agenda of making freedom and core > value of the Internet and the Open Web a reality for as many people on > this world as possible. > > And then we are back to what you said: > >> This is what Mozilla must do if it is to accomplish its long-term goals, >> which are in the interest of all people. It won't be easy. Enemies will be >> made. But as Winston Churchill once said, "You have enemies? Good. That >> means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." > > KaiRo > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
