"The point is that the community didn't trust Brendan, and Brendan chose to leave rather than do further harm to the community."
Most people in Mozilla supported Brendan, even if after soul-searching. It was the relentless noise from outside which both prevented us from having the time and peace to work through the difficult questions raised, and prevented him from leading while we were doing it.
The second half of your sentence is right; but the harm was not due to his belief or donation, but the whipped-up Twitterstorm and news frenzy which was distracting us from getting work done. Now we have no CEO and no Brendan, and Mozilla is massively the poorer for it. Slow hand clap for everyone who contributed.
Power management, mobile and firmware developer on Linux. Security developer at Aurora. Ex-biologist. mjg59 on Twitter. Content here should not be interpreted as the opinion of my employer. Also on Mastodon.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
"The community didn't trust Brendan"
Date: 2014-04-05 03:12 pm (UTC)Most people in Mozilla supported Brendan, even if after soul-searching. It was the relentless noise from outside which both prevented us from having the time and peace to work through the difficult questions raised, and prevented him from leading while we were doing it.
The second half of your sentence is right; but the harm was not due to his belief or donation, but the whipped-up Twitterstorm and news frenzy which was distracting us from getting work done. Now we have no CEO and no Brendan, and Mozilla is massively the poorer for it. Slow hand clap for everyone who contributed.