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Breaking News: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

posted by NCommander on Thursday April 03 2014, @07:34PM   

As of today, Brendan Eich has stepped down as CEO of Mozilla. From the Mozilla blog:

We didn't act like you'd expect Mozilla to act. We didn't move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We're sorry. We must do better.

Brendan Eich has chosen to step down from his role as CEO. He's made this decision for Mozilla and our community.

Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech. And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.

Our organizational culture reflects diversity and inclusiveness. We welcome contributions from everyone regardless of age, culture, ethnicity, gender, gender-identity, language, race, sexual orientation, geographical location and religious views. Mozilla supports equality for all.

We have employees with a wide diversity of views. Our culture of openness extends to encouraging staff and community to share their beliefs and opinions in public. This is meant to distinguish Mozilla from most organizations and hold us to a higher standard. But this time we failed to listen, to engage, and to be guided by our community.

As of this time, there is no named successor or statement on who will be taking over Mozilla's leadership.

• oh welloh well (Score: 3, Informative) by marcello_dl on Thursday April 03 2014, @08:36PM

  by marcello_dl (2685) on Thursday April 03 2014, @08:36PM (#25835)

  The discriminator being discriminated. An eye for an eye. We made it sooo far, eh.

  What's next, forcing him to write moderately complex javascript apps that work in any browser?

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• Re:oh wellRe:oh well (Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Thursday April 03 2014, @09:21PM

  by pe1rxq (844) on Thursday April 03 2014, @09:21PM (#25869) Homepage

  They simply pointed out that he was not fit for the job. He could never promote the values of Mozilla in a believable way.
  The discriminating factor here was his (in)competence.

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  • Re:oh well(Score: 2) by marcello_dl on Friday April 04 2014, @01:56PM

    by marcello_dl (2685) on Friday April 04 2014, @01:56PM (#26191)

    Fit for the job, is a good point. Unfit to the point to be removed, is a good point.

    But, "the values of Mozilla" are here [mozilla.org], I'd like to know where he fucked up exactly.

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• Re:oh well(Score: 2) by cwix on Thursday April 03 2014, @09:46PM

  by cwix (873) on Thursday April 03 2014, @09:46PM (#25887)

  He has the right to express his views. That does not mean he has the right to be free from criticisms of those views.

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