[pluma]

They didn't bend to social media. They made it very clear they were surprised by the internal reactions and that's why he stepped back down. Besides, social media or not, the primary reason the issue blew up at all was a lack of transparency in their organizational politics. This isn't about Gamergate.

[Flimm]

The truth is, we'll never know the whole truth about why they did what they did. I find it hard to believe that social pressure played no part in their decisions.

[anon3_]

> They didn't bend to social media.

https://www.google.com/search?q=eich+mozilla+ceo

> They made it very clear they were surprised by the internal reactions and that's why he stepped back down. Besides, social media or not, the primary reason the issue blew up at all was a lack of transparency in their organizational politics.

Eich wouldn't have been canned if not due to external political forces.

The core of Mozilla is gone, the organization's ongoing denial of it further sinks the brand off the deep end.

Create a wound. Deny it happened. When in history did that ever work?

It gives me the impression "mozilla are liars, they just don't care." Why do organizations continue to go along with lie as if repeating it rewrites history to washes away treachery like that?