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It's unreasonable to expect the Mozilla Board to have the foresight of the community's reaction. There was no large sect upset by Brendan's appointment on polit
by mcav 13y ago
It's unreasonable to expect the Mozilla Board to have the foresight of the community's reaction. There was no large sect upset by Brendan's appointment on political grounds. There were a few squeaky wheels, a few silent ones, and a silent majority that had no problem with it.
Hubris? Nah. They just misjudged the ability of the media and vocal critics to not spin a historical donation as a wildly out of scope controversy for the sake of attention, pageviews, and a misguided sense of social rights.
- crygin 13y agoAs a single, useless data point, I'm not at all involved in the Mozilla community (though I've been a user for a very long time), or in the same-sex marriage fight, nor am I a resident of California. And my first thought when I heard the announcement was basically "really? The Prop 8 guy?" This is pretty basic stuff for high-profile executive appointments...
- mcav 13y agoI agree that it should have come up in the discussion; I think that even if it did, it is a reasonable decision to think that his appointment as a whole would be worth the risk. That's really what this was -- a calculated risk, just like all CEO appointments. I think it's just as reasonable to believe that it could have gone the other way -- that there wouldn't have been as big of a backlash.