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0 pointsDonHopkins12y ago0 comments

The Mozilla FAQ on CEO Resignation says "Brendan was not fired and was not asked by the Board to resign. Brendan voluntarily submitted his resignation. The Board acted in response by inviting him to remain at Mozilla in another C-level position. Brendan declined that offer. The Board respects his decision." [1]

"Another C-level position" definitely means not CEO, and probably means CTO.

So Brendan is not disagreeing with the posting, he's just not stating that he was offered a job as CTO or whatever.

I don't know where cpeterso got the idea they asked him to "stay the course as CEO or CTO", but the FAQ makes it pretty clear he was not asked to stay as CEO, and was probably offered his CTO job back. Are there any other "C-level positions [2]" that he is qualified for? Probably not CDO. ;)

Edit: cpeterso may have been quoting yoric from here: [3] So I don't know where yorik got that idea from. But Brendan corrected his incorrect information, without actually openly revealing what the correct information was.

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_title

[3]: http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2014/04/07...

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strafer3212y ago· 1 in thread

cpeterso got the idea from other Mozilla employees. The "he as offered to stay as CEO" grew legs when employees started responding on the governance newsgroup to people complaining about the firing. One person (Yoric I think) said he was offered a position. Then it grew to offered to stay as CEO. Then it grew to "Brendan even got angry about being asked to stay on" or some such statement. It's a classic case of incremental additions to an originally incorrect statement.

Brendan set the record straight and after that the official Mozilla line was clarified. The FAQ was updated to be clearer after Brendan made those comments.

cpeterso12y ago

Thanks for the clarification.

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