Brendan,
mostly I find your words comforting. Just make sure words are followed by actions. That things are delayed is understandable and common for software, but if things happen in the wrong order people get upset.

The reasons you state about the Mozilla Foundation are fair enough, but do not let Mozilla Firebird proceed in its development before your mistakes are corrected. If the development continues without correcting the name, that will be a good reason for us to feel neglected and ignored ("see, they are implementing these nice features, but have no time to correct the naming"), and will probably yet again result in quite nasty mails between our two camps.

Set

Brendan Eich wrote:

> I'm sorry for that. We've had a lot to do lately, setting up the
> Mozilla Foundation, finding colocation space, moving machines, etc.
> We're not done yet. The roadmap is obviously out of date along
> with the branding policy.
>
> We want to fix the branding problem soon. I'm not able to speak
> for staff right now, but I hope to have something to say within a
> week or so. Please bear with us.
>
> One more thing I will ask here: please help to end the accusations
> of mozilla.org acting with malice aforethought. They're untrue,
> and they don't aid anyone involved in reaching a conclusion. You
> can charge us with negligence, for sure.