acknowledge Brendan's personal political donations On the other hand, it might have been possible for Mozilla to retain Brendan's services without alienating a good fraction of their user base, with a suitably well-thought-through response: Making tools and services for public use is always political, and by tacitly endorsing discrimination against queer people, Mozilla would have been taking a stance that would have tarnished their reputation with a lot of potential contributors - just look at what's happening with Disney right now. This tactic will only work if Mozilla doesn't want to bring queer people along with them - an open web for _most_ people, but some people aren't welcome to join in.
> Maybe he didn't have the same values employees had about LGBT, but fuck this But all these stupid features that were landing on our head… Got damn, all we wanted is to make Gecko amazing, light, in a lightweight simple browser. We were seeing all these ambitious silicon-valley-puppets taking the position of PM, director, etc etc… And that thing was just too good of a fight for them. People in the silicon valley *love* being offended. Maybe he didn't have the same values employees had about LGBT, but fuck this. The real only value, the manifesto, burnt a long time ago.ĭon't get me wrong, LGBT and such are important, but that's not the job of Mozilla. Who gives a shit about Mozilla standing for these values? It's all marketing. Marketing became "how to show we're good people". And slowly the original engineers started leaving, leaving behind this BS people with these young engineers. New young engineers were hired, and they thought the core of Mozilla values lied in these upper-management people. upper-management was morphing into some BS silicon valley gang. We all trusted the upper management, but upper management was slowly becoming non-mozillians.Īnd an absurd mechanic started: original engineer were busy writing difficult code.
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We didn't know how to react to Google Chrome and the smartphone revolution. We started seeing some ex-twitter, ex-microsoft, ex-amazon joining the company. After the Firefox 4 nightmare, they started hiring product managers from big corp. Mozilla is not the Mozilla that was created almost 20 years ago. And eventually left the company 2 years ago. I've been working at Mozilla since its inception. I'm posting anonymously for obvious reasons.
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