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posted by NCommander on Thursday April 03 2014, @07:34PM   Printer-friendly
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.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by fliptop on Thursday April 03 2014, @08:51PM

    by fliptop (1666) on Thursday April 03 2014, @08:51PM (#25846) Journal

    This is the kind of shit that will sink any politician's career, because they're held to a higher standard

    I dunno, Robert Byrd [wikipedia.org] seemed to escape unscathed.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday April 03 2014, @10:28PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday April 03 2014, @10:28PM (#25902)

    Not just him: Strohm Thurmond, Jesse Helms, and many other unrepentant bigots had very successful political careers. They arguably did better than the repenting former bigots like George Wallace.

    One reason bigotry doesn't cost politicians their careers is that there still are a lot of bigots out there in the electorate who express their bigotry at the ballot box. For example, Ohio generally has a slight Republican majority in the electorate, but when in 2006 the Ohio Republican Party ran a black candidate for governor his white Democratic opponent won in a landslide. In that same election, white Republican candidates got the same support they always had, and the black Republican in question (Ken Blackwell) was a well-qualified and well-known candidate with solidly conservative credentials, so I highly doubt that the odd-looking result for governor had anything to do with the Ohio electorate suddenly all becoming Democratic supporters.

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