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You lie when you say Eich could simply have reverted to CTO -- as CEO he had promptly promoted Andreas Gal to CTO. To promote with succession plans in place is
by tedbaker 11y ago
You lie when you say Eich could simply have reverted to CTO -- as CEO he had promptly promoted Andreas Gal to CTO. To promote with succession plans in place is good business practice; to undo those commitments is fatal for a business. Note now that not only is Andreas Gal no longer at Mozilla, but a number of other key leaders have left. Mozilla's undoing of _its_ decision to make Eich CEO looks to be fatal too, with its leadership departing and market share sliding into single digits.
- geofft 11y agoYou're correct, sorry. The Mozilla FAQ says the board offered him some other C-level position. Whether this was the right decision for Mozilla is still an orthogonal question from whether he unjustly lost his livelihood. If bowing to public pressure is bad for corporate health, let's talk about that, and avoid dragging the emotional "but he lost his job!" into it.