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> It is a problem that she is both on the board and CEO, which effectively makes her impossible to hold to account Is this really a problem? The CEO is often a
by culturestate 6y ago
> It is a problem that she is both on the board and CEO, which effectively makes her impossible to hold to account
Is this really a problem? The CEO is often a director, and even as chairwoman I doubt anything in the bylaws prevents the board at large from removing her if they wanted to.
Instead, it seems like the board itself is the issue, since they allowed Mozilla to stray so far from its core mission.
- jacquesm 6y agostay/stray.
- culturestate 6y agoCheers. MacBook keyboard strikes again.
- mschuster91 6y agoA bit offtopic, but I really really recommend the 16-inch MBP. That's what I call a keyboard, not the 15-inch crap.
- ilrwbwrkhv 6y agoWhat about the new Macbook pro 13 inch?
- mschuster91 6y agoDon't have experiences with it, that's too small for me, sorry.
- chipotle_coyote 6y agoThey're all identical keyboards -- AFAIK, literally -- so if you like it on one (or don't like it on one!), it'll apply to the rest. I have a 2020 MacBook Air and think it's one of the best laptop keyboards I've used in a long time. (And it makes me really hate going back to the butterfly keyboard on my work laptop, even though I found it okay to type on previously. I actually never had any dead keys on it, or on a previous work laptop with butterfly keys, or on a personal MBP 13" that the Air replaced.)
- culturestate 6y agoThis one went nearly 3 years before it had a problem, but as soon as one key started acting up the rest of the row quickly followed. I'll trade up for the latest model (with the touch bar, which I actually like, and physical escape key) the next time I can afford to be unproductive for a couple days.
- AMC11 6y agoWhat year/model is it? You might be eligible for the Keyboard Service Program (https://support.apple.com/en-ca/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-notebooks https://support.apple.com/en-ca/keyboard-service-program-for...).
- culturestate 6y agoI am eligible (and it's still under AppleCare) but I want to swap anyway for the updated touch bar layout.
- jeltz 6y agoIs that common in the US? Because here in Sweden it is regarded as bad practice for medium sized companies and up. The CEO is almost never part of the board here except for in tiny companies.
- evancox100 6y agoExtremely common, not frowned upon at all here
- arethuza 6y agoDefinitely the normal thing in the UK for companies of all sizes for the CEO to be an executive director and therefore to sit on the board of directors.
- DonnyV 6y agoAnything corrupt is ok in the US. We just frame it as being efficient.
- notmurdoch 6y agoWhat does this comment bring to the discussion, in line with the HN site guidelines? Does your comment inspire curiosity? Or is it a vague, arguable insult against a nation you dislike?
- rectang 6y agoI served on the board of the Apache Software Foundation for a year and everything about the experience convinced me that it is desirable for the board to be completely separate from the corporate officers. In fact, I have seen this very debate play out in real life. We appointed a new President of the ASF during my term. That person had been a Director, but when they became President they stepped down from the Board. For a non-profit charity that relies on volunteers, perfect separation is not always feasible, and especially in the early years when the ASF was smaller the President was often a Board member. But although I can't speak for anybody but myself, I believe that the ASF is likely to continue with an informal tradition of separating Board from Officers for the indefinite future. A similar cultural change ought to be possible at Mozilla — and perhaps elsewhere.
- jariel 6y agoIf the CEO is a majority or major shareholder, they will be on the board, point blank. If they are not, the roles should be separate. Their patron should rectify this, but it's possible they don't care. The 'plan' may be to kill Firefox.