You know, just before hitting send in replying to M Connor in another thread, I decided to reread her reply and it finally dawned on me what the Mozilla employees who are (most likely) volunteering to post here are about... That'll take some thought to digest. But let me say for now that what *we* see (and now hate) in Mozilla is what we see in mostly every large Western institution these days: reverse-bigotry rules all. But what *you* people see is the ideal. You don't feel that you're just working for a company, you strongly identify with it. I certainly don't mean as they do at google, either - where they haughtily (and very wrongly) see themselves as the best and brightest. This is different.
So, we see the principles, while you people seem to see the organization as the embodiment of the principles. I'd say that Mozilla once was the story of David vs Goliath, in the good way. But as of Eich's purging, Mozilla has become the bad way: where the supposedly "oppressed minority" is given the power to censor and destroy whoever it chooses without regard to what's right or wrong. As I write this, the thought is spreading like a match dropped in a forest: "Mozilla is that company that makes Firefox. They get rid of anybody, even their founder, who doesn't kowtow to gays". Saying that "he wasn't fired, he quit" won't change anything, and it shouldn't change anything. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
