As I (and others) have already written, Eich was preserving his position in the industry that will not tolerate any deviance from 100% support of anything that gays want.
13.04.2014, 14:17, "Wayne" <[email protected]>: > 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/ _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
