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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by DonHopkins on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @09:20PM (#24127716)
Eich was not forced out or fired. In fact, just the opposite: the board actually tried to get Eich to stay, but he decided to leave all on his own. Don't try to rewrite history to make an ideological point. It's all very well and unambiguously documented what really happened, and there's no excuse for you spreading that misinformation.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...

Q: Was Brendan Eich fired?

A: No, Brendan Eich resigned. Brendan himself said:

“I have decided to resign as CEO effective April 3rd, and leave Mozilla. Our mission is bigger than any one of us, and under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader. I will be taking time before I decide what to do next.”

Brendan Eich also blogged on this topic.

Q: Was Brendan Eich asked to resign by the Board?

A: No. It was Brendan’s idea to resign, and in fact, once he submitted his resignation, Board members tried to get Brendan to stay at Mozilla in another C-level role.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by rsj_hn on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @12:47AM (#24128677)
Then the financial settlement was just for kicks?
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by DonHopkins on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @10:15AM (#24132254)
What financial settlement?
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by rsj_hn on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @02:33PM (#24135219)
The (substantial) one they were forced to pay Brendan for firing him. You see, CA law protects employees from being fired for political activities done outside work -- this was a law put on the books a long time ago, originally to defend unionization campaigns and communists from being fired, but it means I can donate to the Pro-Life-Anti-Gay-Anti-Black party all day long, attend their conventions, give speeches, etc, and it's illegal for you to fire me for that.

Funny how so few people know about this law.

That's why they had to come to a settlement to pay him so that he would agree to leave and not pursue his rights under the law.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by DonHopkins on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:40PM (#24138810)
They didn't fire Eich, as I said in my posting that you replied to. Did you not read that? So what proof do you have that they paid him a financial settlement for firing him, when clearly they didn't fire him? Or are you just making up false accusations now that contradict the known facts?

Exactly how much did they pay him, and why, since they certainly didn't fire him, and just how do you know that? Where is your evidence, or your retraction and apology for lying and spreading misinformation?

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by BrendanEich on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:10AM (#24167001)
Hi Don — google “constructive separation” for the general idea, with which you seem to be unfamiliar.

I can’t comment on anything about my exit. This will be my only comment, confined to general facts and CA law.

P.S.: CA 1101 labor law is real.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by war1025 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:08PM (#24174625)
Completely irrelevant to anything, but seeing this comment downstream from a conversation I started pretty much made my day.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @06:13AM (#24130302)
The bigger picture doesn't support your suggestion much, it's obvious Mozilla has plenty of will to double down on politics.
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