<story><title>Mozilla Moving Forward</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/14/mozilla-moving-forward/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jvehent</author><text>People who are going to comment on this blog post need to realize how disturbing this episode has been for Mozillians.&lt;p&gt;We are talking about a small group of people, a couple thousands at best, that work with limited resources to keep the web open for everybody.&lt;p&gt;When this tidal wave hit Mozillians, the base contributors and employees who spend most of their days in code and features, we lost focus of our work, and stepped into a world of politics that most of us dislike, and are uncomfortable to navigate.&lt;p&gt;I believe Chris Beard is a true Mozillian, as is Brendan Eich. And I am glad that we can refocus on our mission, and move forward. I just wish people can put their differences aside, accept each other&amp;#x27;s beliefs, and share code!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ender7</author><text>&amp;quot;Accepting each other&amp;#x27;s beliefs&amp;quot; seems like a simple solution, but it has a very problematic result. To LGBT Mozillians, this becomes &amp;quot;you must respect beliefs that say that you are a second-class citizen.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;No one should feel like they must respect beliefs that devalue their person.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mozilla Moving Forward</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/14/mozilla-moving-forward/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jvehent</author><text>People who are going to comment on this blog post need to realize how disturbing this episode has been for Mozillians.&lt;p&gt;We are talking about a small group of people, a couple thousands at best, that work with limited resources to keep the web open for everybody.&lt;p&gt;When this tidal wave hit Mozillians, the base contributors and employees who spend most of their days in code and features, we lost focus of our work, and stepped into a world of politics that most of us dislike, and are uncomfortable to navigate.&lt;p&gt;I believe Chris Beard is a true Mozillian, as is Brendan Eich. And I am glad that we can refocus on our mission, and move forward. I just wish people can put their differences aside, accept each other&amp;#x27;s beliefs, and share code!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvehent</author><text>And just to add to this :) &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.mozilla.org/~smartell/cbeard/cbeard-illustration.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;people.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;~smartell&amp;#x2F;cbeard&amp;#x2F;cbeard-illustrati...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>