The question of whether Mozilla should make deals with Yandex and Baidu is a reasonable one.
But it's worth noting that Mozilla has had search deals in the past with both Yandex and Baidu, prior to 2014. Which means that Brendan's tenure as CEO isn't relevant to the Yandex and Baidu deals. So it would be great if any subsequent discussion in this thread could focus on Yandex and Baidu -- as per the subject line -- and not on Brendan. (If you really want to discuss Brendan's tenure as CEO, you could do that in another thread. Conflating two different issues in a single thread will likely reduce the quality of the discussion.) Thank you. Nick On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Adam Porter <[email protected]> wrote: > Mozilla's recent announcement of deals with Baidu and Yandex concerns me. > Baidu is in China, a nation in which every entity is subject to the whims of > its lawless government (and many entities owned by it outright), a government > which regularly commits egregious human rights abuses against even its own > citizens, and which censors all media, including all Internet access. Yandex > is in Russia, the government of which is currently engaged in the invasion > and annexation of a sovereign nation, and which appears to exercise some > degree of control over Yandex, perhaps indirectly. > > These nations' principles, values, and laws are antithetical to Mozilla's > stated goals, principles, and values of openness, freedom, equality, and > human rights. How then can Mozilla be funded by them? How can this be seen > as equivalent to Mozilla's former deals with Google? > > In light of Brendan Eich's being run out of town on account of his stance on > what are claimed to be matters of "human rights," for Mozilla now to make > these deals seems incredibly hypocritical. It's okay to persecute a > prominent individual accused of intolerance, but not okay to refuse deals > with corporations or nations which violently engage in intolerance? > > Am I missing something, or is Mozilla further compromising its principles, a > practice which started at least with the mishandling of Brendan Eich's > appointment as CEO? Did the friction with Google over Chrome finally get to > be too much? Or is this simply a case of prioritizing the bottom line, the > ends justifying the means? > > This seems like a bad sign for Mozilla's future. > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
