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Hmm, something's amiss. Archive.org's record of Mozilla's website says that Mozilla Corp only ever had 5 board members. The WSJ seems to imply they had 6. Assum

by sinak 13y ago

Hmm, something's amiss. Archive.org's record of Mozilla's website says that Mozilla Corp only ever had 5 board members. The WSJ seems to imply they had 6. Assuming Moz's own website is accurate, Katharina Borchert only joined around the time Eich was appointed. Either way, the numbers don't quite add up. If there were only 5 board members, and only 2 of them wanted Eich, how did he get chosen? And even if Katherina was already on the board, that's still 3 vs 3. Mozilla is an incredible force for good. Hope they get through this quickly and get back making the web better. Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20140322233528/http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140322233528/http://www.mozill... Present: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/

yulaow 13y ago
Could be that (note: this is only a supposition) maybe some who voted for this CEO had not evaluated well the outcome and now part of the board, and maybe in this part there are also some who voted for him, asked him to step back? Maybe he said no and now, in the position to get a bad reputation or to pay for the bad choice, the same board members prefer to step back themselves to avoid to be in the crossfire?
redler 13y ago
I don't know anything about Mozilla's structure, but in some corporations it's possible for a single board seat to have more than one vote (e.g., for board seats appointed by a holder of "Class F" (founder) or "original shares" versus other classes of stock). Edit: clarity.
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- ics 13y ago
  The last major example we saw around here was the systemd vote for Debian. One member of the committee (bdale) was to have two votes in the event of a tie (though it was not simply a yes/no vote). If an even number of board members are presented with a scenario where a decision A or B must be made and do nothing is not an option, a tie-breaking vote is pretty important.

by sinak 13y ago

yulaow 13y ago

Could be that (note: this is only a supposition) maybe some who voted for this CEO had not evaluated well the outcome and now part of the board, and maybe in this part there are also some who voted for him, asked him to step back? Maybe he said no and now, in the position to get a bad reputation or to pay for the bad choice, the same board members prefer to step back themselves to avoid to be in the crossfire?

redler 13y ago

I don't know anything about Mozilla's structure, but in some corporations it's possible for a single board seat to have more than one vote (e.g., for board seats appointed by a holder of "Class F" (founder) or "original shares" versus other classes of stock). Edit: clarity.

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ics 13y ago
The last major example we saw around here was the systemd vote for Debian. One member of the committee (bdale) was to have two votes in the event of a tie (though it was not simply a yes/no vote). If an even number of board members are presented with a scenario where a decision A or B must be made and do nothing is not an option, a tie-breaking vote is pretty important.