Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
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#2"They did not want to be identified because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the matter."
With Mozilla?
Re: Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
#3I agree that mobile is critical to remaining relevant (along with security), two areas where Mozilla/Firefox have been pretty subpar. I don't think Eich has specific security or mobile expertise, but he is quite technical, which is a big improvement over a lot of potential CEOs, and I think a technical CEO is likely to prioritize security and mobile.
(The whole "donate to prop 8" thing is a red herring; Mozilla needs someone who is excellent at the things Mozilla most needs (hire for strength) vs. the absence of any weaknesses (politically incorrect donations); it's possible Eich doesn't have the right strengths.)
Is Mozilla not capable of attracting really top-tier people for senior leadership due to lack of an equity upside, or culture, or something else? I realize the pool is pretty small, but there are people with either mobile or security leadership experience who would probably take the job.
Re: Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
#4Locked out of iOS. Under heavly competition on Android. Put the metro port on the back burner. Increasingly fighting to stay on feature parity with Chrome on the desktop. FirefoxOS still to make an impact.
I love Firefox. I'm just worried for it. With the world going mobile, I wonder if there's space for Firefox. It would be such a shame not to see it around 5 years from now.
I wonder if it makes sense for a small organization to spend so much time and money on a custom rendering engine. Is it such a horrible idea to fork and contribute to blink? Just thinking out loud. Mostly out of despair.
Re: Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
#5This seems unusual. Isn't the board responsible for appointing the CEO, to begin with? How can it be that half the board resigns after their own CEO appointment?
Even if the appointment were simply a majority of the board, that in and of itself raises bizarre questions. Why is a CEO appointed only on a 3-3 (or 4-2) vote? Usually you would want unanimity in important things like this.
This certainly opens up a lot of questions.
Re: Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
#6I agree that mobile is critical to remaining relevant (along with security), two areas where Mozilla/Firefox have been pretty subpar. I don't think Eich has specific security or mobile expertise, but he is quite technical, which is a big improvement over a lot of potential CEOs, and I think a technical CEO is likely to prioritize security and mobile. (The whole "donate to prop 8" thing is a red herring; Mozilla needs…
I think support for Rust and Servo shows there is recognition on the security front, and also that attempting to brute force it through people power won't work for them.
On mobile, I think there's a relative handful of candidates, and they're either gainfully employed or burned out. I've been in the mobile world for a decade and the people I know are jumping into "miscellaneous devices with a cellular connection" at quite a rate. My contention is Mozilla are too conservative, and can't accept the smartphone war is lost already. There are related markets for which their system could work very well though, such as e-readers.
Re: Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
#7So is a Fork coming?
Re: Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
#8"They did not want to be identified because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the matter." With Mozilla?
The "people familiar" with the matter (who presumably work for or are affiliated with Mozilla in some way) aren't authorized by Mozilla to speak publicly about the board member resignations.
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#9The choice of Eich as a CEO also made me wonder - they took a year to find a CEO, and ended up with their own CTO. Is it fair to assume that they searched long and hard but couldn't find anyone? If so, that's a real shame. I want Mozilla to succeed.
Re: Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
#10This seems unusual. Isn't the board responsible for appointing the CEO, to begin with? How can it be that half the board resigns after their own CEO appointment? Even if the appointment were simply a majority of the board, that in and of itself raises bizarre questions. Why is a CEO appointed only on a 3-3 (or 4-2) vote? Usually you would want unanimity in important things like this. This certainly opens up a lot of…
Mozilla bylaws doesn't seem to state the the mechanics of officer appointment- just that they do it? https://static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/mf-bylaws.pd...