What were they supposed to do? If you’ve been following Mullenweg’s behavior, he’s clearly unstable, and while this is admittedly armchair diagnosis, a lot of his recent writing gives me strong stimulant psychosis vibes. Granted maybe you shouldn’t take a job as a board member at a company where the CEO has 83% of voting shares to begin with, but once you’re there, you still have a fiduciary duty to do what’s best for the company, so IMO they were obligated to at least try and eject him.
> What were they supposed to do?
The normal thing to do is to resign from the board. Maybe put out a statement explaining why.
Definitely not award themselves very generous severance packages, that sounds fishy as hell regardless of any other factors.