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Re: Mozilla Moving Forward

#11

Post by i80and »

bkor wrote: post #7
natural219 wrote: post #3

I'm still mad about the Brendan Eich thing. Like, mad . I'm totally fine with anybody pursuing whatever kind of political agenda they want, but at the moment you start to derail real progress, the moment you attack one of the best organizations who has literally been busting its ass for the last decade to change the world for no profit... Well, you declared war. I think this whole debacle should be a rallying cry tha…

"the moment you attack one of the best organizations" Nobody attacked Mozilla. You're totally off base.

Some people fell just one step shy of demanding that others boycott Firefox. I'd call that an attack on Mozilla.

Re: Mozilla Moving Forward

#12

Post by danso »

natural219 wrote: post #3

I'm still mad about the Brendan Eich thing. Like, mad . I'm totally fine with anybody pursuing whatever kind of political agenda they want, but at the moment you start to derail real progress, the moment you attack one of the best organizations who has literally been busting its ass for the last decade to change the world for no profit... Well, you declared war. I think this whole debacle should be a rallying cry tha…

Sorry, but "sticking up" for what exactly? Eich's defenders seem to treat him like a child...like, he doesn't know how to phrase a statement like, "I'm against civil unions, not gays, which is why I donated to Prop 8". This isn't about Eich being punished for a "mistake" back in 2008, his detractors are unhappy that Eich does not believe that Prop 8 was a mistake, back in 2008 and today, six years later.

I'm not going to get into a debate about whether Prop 8 was right or wrong. But don't treat this like it's a witch hunt for long past grievances. Until he says otherwise, Eich is a supporter of Prop 8. That doesn't make him evil, that doesn't make him incapable of holding leadership. But for people for whom Prop 8 is a big deal, I think it's understandable why they would continue to press the issue with Eich and his leadership.

Re: Mozilla Moving Forward

#13

Post by patrickg_zill »

natural219 wrote: post #3

I'm still mad about the Brendan Eich thing. Like, mad . I'm totally fine with anybody pursuing whatever kind of political agenda they want, but at the moment you start to derail real progress, the moment you attack one of the best organizations who has literally been busting its ass for the last decade to change the world for no profit... Well, you declared war. I think this whole debacle should be a rallying cry tha…

I think your point is (paraphrasing), we canned a very productive engineer and manager over his un-PC views expressed in his personal life, but which no one at his organization was affected by; and in return, since none of the people criticizing him or pushing for his departure has the ability to truly replace his talent, we have the prospect of the unproductive people criticizing the people who actually get things done.

How accurate am I in understanding your view?

Re: Mozilla Moving Forward

#14

Post by M2Ys4U »

bkor wrote: post #7
natural219 wrote: post #3

I'm still mad about the Brendan Eich thing. Like, mad . I'm totally fine with anybody pursuing whatever kind of political agenda they want, but at the moment you start to derail real progress, the moment you attack one of the best organizations who has literally been busting its ass for the last decade to change the world for no profit... Well, you declared war. I think this whole debacle should be a rallying cry tha…

"the moment you attack one of the best organizations" Nobody attacked Mozilla. You're totally off base.

Plenty of people did attack Mozilla, though, and it was quite disheartening to watch.

Re: Mozilla Moving Forward

#17

Post by saraid216 »

danso wrote: post #12
natural219 wrote: post #3

I'm still mad about the Brendan Eich thing. Like, mad . I'm totally fine with anybody pursuing whatever kind of political agenda they want, but at the moment you start to derail real progress, the moment you attack one of the best organizations who has literally been busting its ass for the last decade to change the world for no profit... Well, you declared war. I think this whole debacle should be a rallying cry tha…

Sorry, but "sticking up" for what exactly ? Eich's defenders seem to treat him like a child...like, he doesn't know how to phrase a statement like, "I'm against civil unions, not gays, which is why I donated to Prop 8". This isn't about Eich being punished for a "mistake" back in 2008, his detractors are unhappy that Eich does not believe that Prop 8 was a mistake, back in 2008 and today , six years later. I'm not go…

Effectively, people are saying that we should defend Eich for the same reason we should defend weev: less that they are people and more that they are pawns.

Re: Mozilla Moving Forward

#18

Post by weaksauce »

i80and wrote: post #11
bkor wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"the moment you attack one of the best organizations" Nobody attacked Mozilla. You're totally off base.

Some people fell just one step shy of demanding that others boycott Firefox. I'd call that an attack on Mozilla.

there actually were websites that called for a boycott of firefox.

Re: Mozilla Moving Forward

#19

Post by jvehent »

jvehent wrote: post #10

People who are going to comment on this blog post need to realize how disturbing this episode has been for Mozillians. We are talking about a small group of people, a couple thousands at best, that work with limited resources to keep the web open for everybody. When this tidal wave hit Mozillians, the base contributors and employees who spend most of their days in code and features, we lost focus of our work, and ste…

And just to add to this :) http://people.mozilla.org/~smartell/cbeard/cbeard-illustrati...

Re: Mozilla Moving Forward

#20

Post by smsm42 »

danso wrote: post #12
natural219 wrote: post #3

I'm still mad about the Brendan Eich thing. Like, mad . I'm totally fine with anybody pursuing whatever kind of political agenda they want, but at the moment you start to derail real progress, the moment you attack one of the best organizations who has literally been busting its ass for the last decade to change the world for no profit... Well, you declared war. I think this whole debacle should be a rallying cry tha…

Sorry, but "sticking up" for what exactly ? Eich's defenders seem to treat him like a child...like, he doesn't know how to phrase a statement like, "I'm against civil unions, not gays, which is why I donated to Prop 8". This isn't about Eich being punished for a "mistake" back in 2008, his detractors are unhappy that Eich does not believe that Prop 8 was a mistake, back in 2008 and today , six years later. I'm not go…

Prop 8 was not about civil unions. If you want to discuss it, at least get your facts right. Benefits equality, etc. that is commonly understood under civil union umbrella existed in California long before prop 8, and prop 8 was not going to change that. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_partnership_in_Califo... For people for whom prop 8 is a big deal it would be a good thing to at least know what it was about.
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