On Friday, April 11, 2014 7:51:44 PM UTC-5, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Charles Mathews 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
Unfortunately cowardice in the face of adversity is not a reputation that bodes well for the organization. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
