> However, with CEOs it's an entirely different ballgame. For better or worse, the CEOs personality is the company's personality. A promotion to CEO carries wit

> However, with CEOs it's an entirely different ballgame. For better or worse, the CEOs personality is the company's personality. A promotion to CEO carries with it an endorsement of the whole person, there is really no way to spin it as if his personal views are not connected to his professional ones. In this case it's especially jarring given Mozilla's role and mission. This is reallly overreaching. 99%+ of the people on here could not have told you who Gary Kovacs was before reading articles today, and still couldn't tell you who John Lilly or Mitchell Baker are. So the arguments for the "public face of the company" that have popped up today as justification for why random internet guy #7's opinion on someone is important really don't hold much water. It's fine to have an opinion and to express it, but it's just the insistence on the importance of that opinion that feels disingenuous. But really, the proof is in the pudding. Nothing in the past has suggested that the work environment at Mozilla will suddenly grow toxic with this change, nor will there be a sudden change in the causes they advocate for or the larger community they foster. It is possible that these things will change for the worse, but that's already a possibility, and we have tools and a whole lot of people who love Mozilla to keep an eye on it, ready to help out if needed.