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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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday April 03 2014, @11:57PM
And both of you are wrong.
You've stripped a person of his political free will and his job, on the assumption he couldn't possibly do his job with his set of beliefs.
That is bigotry pure and simple. Very odd that you claim to be able to detect bigotry in everyone else while being oblivious to your own.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Friday April 04 2014, @02:31AM
> You've stripped a person of his political free will and his job,
> on the assumption he couldn't possibly do his job with his set of beliefs.
When his expressed and acted on beliefs are in direct contradiction with a portion of the job's responsibilities then to insist that everybody is simply assuming he can't do it is willful blindness.
Of course, that kind of blindness isn't anything new, we keep hiring telecom lobbyists to run the FCC.
(Score: 1) by rochrist on Friday April 04 2014, @08:36PM
I love the smell of the 'your intolerance or my intolerance is intolerance' argument.!