On 2014-04-16 17:44, Majken Connor wrote:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 5:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for responding.
1) Why didn't they offer him the CEO position? Has Mozilla attempted
to
persuade Brendan to speak publicly on this? What was his response?
Because he had just quit that position. "I don't want to be CEO
anymore."
"Ok, how about if you be CEO instead?"
Do you even know what happened?
The Board withdrew their support.
Taking advantage of someone's weakness under pressure.
2) Not blogging skills, but the content of the post was the straw that
broke the camel's back. Missteps prior to are justification. She
should
have quelled this fire the second the "protest" began. And if it
developed
further, reiterate the board, including her, stands by their
appointment
and that doesn't require standing by his views outside Mozilla. A blog
post
on her personal web site is next to nothing. The handling and response
were
inadequate. But, she did take the time to write a lengthy blog post
the day
he left. She was ready to take advantage of that. :-\
Because the people asking for Brendan's resignation weren't entirely
baseless.
Well, of course they were baseless, as is your comment.
They did have a valid point that people that don't know Brendan
could have hard time trusting him.
99% of Mozilla employees disagree with you. Who do you rep.?
Mitchell couldn't just say "no you guys
are entirely wrong, we're not listening to you!!"
Yes, that is exactly what she should have done, and fired some. Still
has not happened.
Also "quelling" the fire
would have required squashing other people's freedom of speech.
This attitude is part of the problem.
This
happened very quickly. Mistakes were made. No doubt the longer blog
post
was made after seeing how the previously handling of the situation
worked
(or didn't work). Mitchell and Brendan are cofounders of Mozilla. They
have
been friends for a long time. I can't for a moment believe Mitchell
would
ever intentionally gain from Brendan's suffering. I'm sure that's also
part
of why the blog post after he resigned was longer, because she must
feel
awful.
Does that excuse revenge?
3) By not standing by and defending someone who differs in opinion. By
not
acting on information which should be private but forced to be public
by
California law.
As an organization, and in general, Mozilla did stand by him. Only a
small
number of people called for his resignation. Many others, including
several
of our LGBTQ contributors supported Brendan continuing in the position.
Personal opinion here: Brendan wasn't a slam dunk choice before the
controversy hit.
What would you know?
I am much more excited about Chris Beard being named
interim CEO than I was over Brendan. I have nothing against Brendan,
and I
don't know him well enough to say if I think he'd have been a great CEO
for
Mozilla. I think many of us were in that in between place, we didn't
realize he was a candidate, we knew there was a search for an outside
CEO.
We didn't have time to decide if we thought he was the right choice. I
do
know Chris well enough to know he'll be amazing.
A Chris vs Brendan comparison is the last thing we need and will just
create more trouble. Keep you opinions to yourself.
I know for my part, that
contributed to me taking time before publicly (on facebook :-p )
declaring
support for Brendan.
Brendan had merit. You can't even judge merit.
I waited to see how our LGBTQ contributors felt. But
things were moving fast, and we didn't really have much time. Honestly,
I'm
not 100% sure what we could have done better. We could have tried to
organize social media so that we were sharing out our posts in support
of
Brendan better. But all this is hindsight. If we'd been prepared for
this,
sure, we could have done a bunch of things differently. But we weren't
prepared. We didn't expect the controversy because to most of us there
wasn't a controversy (we dealt with this 2 years ago). It's much faster
to
just RT a call for a resignation than it is to take time to carefully
form
an opinion.
Stop pretending you represent Mozilla. If you want to express an
opinion then make it clear that it is your own and that you have no clue
about the Mozilla mission.
Jim
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