On 4/12/2014 4:53 PM, Big Fred wrote:
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.
Not having been present when these events occurred, it's certainly
understandable that you might enterpret the events in that way.
But if you spoke to Brendan and he said, "It was completely my choice.
No one in Mozilla urged me to quit. And there was no pressure *from
within Mozilla*", you wouldn't think differently? Wow!
But those are the facts. As pointed out in
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignation/
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