Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal (opens in new tab)

Me too. Very sad that they lost one of the most significant people for Mozilla and for the whole web as well over some nonsense, to think of it. I wonder if it actually would be that bad if they just ignored those, umh, haters?

And now what? I'm sure this Andreas Gal is very notable and significant person as well, but I'm not really sure I ever heard of him, and I surely heard of Eich, FWIF. Well, I hope he does well and will be good choice for the CTO chair, but all that stuff is sad somehow anyway.

Is he involved with Mozilla at all any more?

Public outrage can have hysteresis, not just hysteria.

After their spineless handling of this farce I see no reason for him to have to do anything with Mozilla.

100% agreed. I had the pleasure of working with Andreas (and you, if you're the Fabrice D. I think you are) on the Boot2Gecko project, and he was a great project leader. He's technically adept, he knows how to work with people, and just gets things done.

I'm very optimistic about Mozilla's future with him as CTO.

Andreas is not a great choice. His people skills are terrible. They are so bad that he no longer writes his own emails to employees. They have to go through a PA to make sure they have a human element.

The @RealAndreasGal twitter account that was recently deleted was so amusing because the things that it said were exactly on point. Same with the 'ShitGalSays' Tumblr account which is still around: http://shitgalsays.com/

Andreas is strongly pro-whatever partners want in Firefox OS. Expect DRM and other forms of lockdown to start appearing under his rule. He has no interest in the Mozilla mission.

Just yesterday I was wondering if the CTO role would eventually be filled, and I figured if the answer was "yes" that Andreas would be the one. He's been involved in the creation of many of Mozilla's recent new projects including Firefox OS, the revamped Firefox for Android, pdf.js, and Shumway.

I'm not convinced a web insider was the right choice. The web desperately needs some new thinking -- people that don't believe the technology clock stopped in 1995 with the big hand stuck on "JavaScript" and little hand on "HTML".

i would say that hes a good choice and generally "no bullshit" from bugs/mailing lists reads.

There was a funny twitter account with his name that has now been removed which was a satire of his way of handling people. I'm not at mozilla corp. but "very nice" sounds like a stretch. I'm sure mozilla needs positive input right now - but psst :)

And, equally important as Mozilla, has not expressed a political opinion that is disagreeable.

it's likely all candidate higher-ups in mozilla will be required to reveal all past political affiliations to make sure their beliefs don't conflict with mozilla values such as acceptance and tolerance of people of differing opinions/backgrounds.

Indeed. Hopefully his past beliefs are aligned with whichever opinion the mob adopts next.

Any donation >$250 to a candidate's committee is required to be disclosed to the FEC.

It's also searchable here: www.fec.gov

He'll be fine as long as he toes the thought police orthodoxy line.

#growup , I mean,the story is over,let's talk about technology,now.I wish Eich well.I'm sure he'll be joining a startup or something soon.

Firefox falls to third place, lowest user level ever.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/mozilla-firefox...

Not sure I have a good answer for you. All the options I know of, in general, suck. Fortunately this thread hasn't gone too far off the rails so far.

Thanks. It's been fixed.