I had the pleasure of meeting Gerv once at a UK Linux conference in the mid 2000s. He was a really nice person, and an asset as a public face of Mozilla. I ca

I had the pleasure of meeting Gerv once at a UK Linux conference in the mid 2000s. He was a really nice person, and an asset as a public face of Mozilla. I can't help but feel that his critics are genuine "illiberals" who can't tolerate any point of view but their own. And unfortunately, it's those people who are part of its current management problems. I did disagree with him about the Mozilla position upon trademarks, which was unusually aggressive for an open source project at the time, and for the most part still is. As a Debian developer at the time, that may have influenced my views somewhat.