On Sunday, November 23, 2014 10:47:07 PM UTC-6, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > The question of whether Mozilla should make deals with Yandex and > Baidu is a reasonable one.
I appreciate your being open to the discussion. > 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. I was not aware of those earlier deals. There is probably a lot I'm not aware of, being an outside observer, and that's one of the reasons I have brought this up here. I would like to better understand the situation, and if it's justifiable--arguably, of course--to understand why. However, I disagree that having had earlier deals with them makes the Eich ordeal irrelevant. (Not that I want to bring him into things for the sake of reigniting that issue--I respect him and his desire to move on, and I myself wrote on this forum calling for people to move on for the sake of Mozilla's mission.) To me, having made such deals before that happened makes the hypocrisy seem like a deeper problem within Mozilla that's been going on for longer than previously realized. > (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.) No, that's not the point I am bringing up. However, while it's not the focus of this issue, it is relevant to this issue; it informs our discussion of this issue--the issue being Mozilla acting contrary to its stated mission, principles, and values. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
