How do I cancel my asspociation with Mozila and un-install all products for Polical reasons?
I'm a 61 year young typical baby boomer who is from old school and Christian belief. As a business man, I don't expect everyone to agree on moral issues. However from a business standpoint, I do not indulge in the controversy one way or the other. I don't send out messages of company beliefs because if I do it can only cause controversy and harm just as Mozilla has done. Some things are better left alone and unsaid. It's amazing how large companies the size of Mozilla is to stupid to understand this. So. since you are taking a stand, I will do the same on every site I build for my customers. I am a website site server host and site developer and will make my opinion known world wide. This is the consequence of your doing and not mine. If you don't hire this person back and make a public apology, I believe it will cost Mozilla more than you realize.
Larry larryfisher@comporium.net
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Hello Larry, since you care deeply enough to send this message instead of silently turning your back on us, you might spare a minute or two to go through these bits of information trying to clear up a some of the misconceptions that are flying around. Unfortunately some media outlets will rather publish sensationalized stories generating many clicks and increased revenue by ads than perform the most basic fact-checking:
http://blog.gerv.net/2014/04/your-ire-is-misdirected/
https://medium.com/p/7645a4bf8a2
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignation/
Brendan didn't have to leave Mozilla - we would like nothing better than to rehire Brendan. In fact, we didn't want him to leave in the first place. However it was his personal decision to resign among all this ongoing frenzy, threats and mischaracterization of him as a person and the Mozilla community coming from third-parties, in order for the constant bombardment to end and to avert any further damage to Mozilla and its mission that he helped build for so many years.
So in this sad process we have lost a co-founder and brilliant technical mind and now the "other side" of the political spectrum comes along, again quite misinformed and rushing to judgement, bashing our community and voicing calls for boycotts against our products. This is quite sad & Mozilla has not deserved to be in the middle of all of this. Our community exists to protect the Web by promoting openness, innovation and opportunity and is no battleground to fight culture-wars upon...
Thank you!
Mozilla is not in the wrong or the bad guy here as many people have been too quick to judge Mozilla and Brendan with their own misconceptions instead of first asking for accurate information on what happened.
Since he was not fired nor forced out, he likely can come back to a role at Mozilla if he wanted to.