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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @01:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @01:29AM (#25970)

    That's why you try very hard to force them to conform to your world view, because YOUR world view is, by definition, the right one.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @09:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @09:40AM (#26111)

    Nobody is trying to make him conform to anything.

    We just don't want to use Mozilla products (like Firefox) as the same time as Mozilla has him as CEO.

    It's up to Mozilla to decide whether they want to continue endorsing his views (making someone a CEO is the biggest endorsement a company can give him), or they want to keep us as Firefox users. They have made their choice.

    He is now free to be as much of a bigot as he wants to be, without worrying about how that affects the image of Mozilla.