As a former Mozilla distinguished engineer --- your comment is insulting, totally wrong and betrays your ignorance.
Not even Brendan's worst enemies have ever accused him of being a moron.
Brendan was a leading figure at Mozilla since the very beginning of the project. Everyone very well knew who he was.
I didn't agree with all of Brendan's decisions. For example I think we should have prioritized process separation higher than we did, and Brendan was partly responsible for deprioritizing that, which I viewed as a serious mistake. But Brendan made a lot more good decisions than bad ones and from that point of view, everyone I know was confident in him as CEO.
Engineers certainly weren't looking for an "excuse to get rid of him". I assume executives and the board weren't either, or they wouldn't have made him CEO just before the controversy exploded.
Not even Brendan's worst enemies have ever accused him of being a moron.
Brendan was a leading figure at Mozilla since the very beginning of the project. Everyone very well knew who he was.
I didn't agree with all of Brendan's decisions. For example I think we should have prioritized process separation higher than we did, and Brendan was partly responsible for deprioritizing that, which I viewed as a serious mistake. But Brendan made a lot more good decisions than bad ones and from that point of view, everyone I know was confident in him as CEO.
Engineers certainly weren't looking for an "excuse to get rid of him". I assume executives and the board weren't either, or they wouldn't have made him CEO just before the controversy exploded.