Hi Fred, I am not sure why you should be surprised. Most Mozillians, regardless of our convictions, wanted Brendan to remain. Just take a look at our blogs before (and after) Brendan's resignation. You can find them all on http://planet.mozilla.org – and you'll probably have to scroll back a few days. You will find a few voices against Brendan and many backing him.
Unfortunately, despite our support and wishes, Brendan made a personal choice, informed the board that he resigned as CEO and declined the offers to stay in other C-level positions. This choice is understandable, given the amount of pressure that we witnessed, but at this stage, there is nothing we or the board can do to get Brendan back. We can inform him that he is still very much welcome as a member of the Mozilla Project (as of last week, he was still active in the project). We can imagine scenarios to better protect our next CEOs (and employees, and community members) against bullying. But dissent, as you suggest? This would be pointless, because most of us are in agreement. No, what we need to do is find a way out of the current mess. And if this means moving on, that's exactly what we are going to do. Best regards, David P.S.: I don't think anybody knows for sure whether Brendan received violent threats. However, we know that at least one Mozillian who came forward to support Brendan publicly was the object of a death threat. It is therefore possible – but not certain – that this was also Brendan's case. On 12/04/14 19:22, Big Fred wrote: > Hi, David. I am frankly surprised that you publicly state that you wanted > Eich to remain. Up until today (sorry for the unavoidable delay in replying), > Mozilla to me seemed homogeneously lacking much of internal opposition to > what happened - or very weak opposition at best. That lack implies consent. > > So here is my suggestion to you: organize loud and unambiguous dissent to > what happened, culminating in a well phrased public statement. Merely using > words like "regret" and "move on" (and "outsiders") would accomplish nothing, > and probably would even be counterproductive, as if being part of a > smokescreen. > > But using terms like "grave injustice" in a statement would be impressive. > However, I think you will find that employees would be skittish to sign such > a statement because of fear of being blacklisted by the industry. "You'll > never work in this town again" comes to mind. Even at Mozilla, while everyone > is supposedly equal, gays are obviously more equal (as in the affirmative > action: Ascend Project) > > Your sentence "This attack, and Brendan's resignation, made us appear as an > organization that could be bullied" is exactly correct - except replace > "could be" with "was and can again be". > > That brings up an important point: there are claims that Eich received > violent threats to himself and his family. Where are the police reports? I > would guess there aren't any. Why not? I don't doubt that the claims are > true. So the CEO of a very famous corporation is no longer in his position, > in large part because of violent threats and nothing is done about that? > Mozilla itself should demand that the criminals be identified and prosecuted, > even if Eich does not. > > Also, where is the self-organized massive effort by internet companies in > general, or by individuals with forensic skills from across the net. to root > out the criminals? Instead, there is silence - which is, of course, > completely expected given the source of the threats. > > Contrast this: > CEO of internet company forced out by campaign which included threats from > radical gays, everyone says "let's move on" > with this > CEO of internet company forced out by campaign which included threats from > white supremacists, everyone says "let's move on" > > Yep, some are "more equal", to be sure. -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla
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