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>Citation, please. I'm a Mozilla employee, and was a Mozilla employee at the time. I'm not going to claim everyone was ecstatic about things; there was a lot of

>Citation, please. I'm a Mozilla employee, and was a Mozilla employee at the time. I'm not going to claim everyone was ecstatic about things; there was a lot of soul-searching going on for some people. But I don't recall any "Mozilla employees", in the sense of people working for the Mozilla Corporation, saying they would resign, nor calling for Brendan to do so. I'm not saying there was an organized "we, a group, will resing". I'm only repeating what I was told hanging out on the deck during one of the cantinas - that there would have be a lot of turnover if he hadn't left :) IIRC Eich indirectly acknowledged this when he resigned when he said he didn't want to hurt Mozilla.

BrendanEich 9y ago
No, I did not acknowledge that. Stop putting your preferred narrow interpretation on a (too-broad) fact pattern and then attributing your interpretation to me. Doing so takes a low road and can be used against your views as well as for them.
- greggarious 9y ago
  I didn't mean to imply you did. I was merely pointing out that it is my understanding that you resigned, that you mentioned care for Mozilla as why you did, and that many people would have resigned if you hadn't. I thought I made that clear when I said "indirectly acknowledged". I guess my understanding was wrong. Sorry for that. I definitely don't want to take a low road. We never met, but even the people who disagreed with your politics all thought you were a pleasant person and would mention missing you at the various company events. I hope you know that.
  - BrendanEich 9y ago
    "many people would have resigned" is unfalsifiable, but if you mean the six Mozilla Foundation employees who tweeted on day 2 that I should resign, those people never worked for me. For whatever reason they almost all resigned for other jobs within a year of my leaving, anyway. I hope you weren't thinking of them when making the "would have resigned" imponderable claim.

BrendanEich 9y ago

No, I did not acknowledge that. Stop putting your preferred narrow interpretation on a (too-broad) fact pattern and then attributing your interpretation to me. Doing so takes a low road and can be used against your views as well as for them.

greggarious 9y ago
I didn't mean to imply you did. I was merely pointing out that it is my understanding that you resigned, that you mentioned care for Mozilla as why you did, and that many people would have resigned if you hadn't. I thought I made that clear when I said "indirectly acknowledged". I guess my understanding was wrong. Sorry for that. I definitely don't want to take a low road. We never met, but even the people who disagreed with your politics all thought you were a pleasant person and would mention missing you at the various company events. I hope you know that.
- BrendanEich 9y ago
  "many people would have resigned" is unfalsifiable, but if you mean the six Mozilla Foundation employees who tweeted on day 2 that I should resign, those people never worked for me. For whatever reason they almost all resigned for other jobs within a year of my leaving, anyway. I hope you weren't thinking of them when making the "would have resigned" imponderable claim.