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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: 2) by Angry Jesus on Friday April 04 2014, @02:25AM

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Friday April 04 2014, @02:25AM (#25996)

    He paid people to try to prevent gay people from being full fledged members of society.

    All that "mainstream" stuff is hooey. People were saying the same thing about emancipation and miscegenation -- being "mainstream" doesn't make it any less harmful to the people who were hurt, nor does being a follower rather than a leader excuse it either.

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  • (Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday April 04 2014, @06:41AM

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 04 2014, @06:41AM (#26069) Journal

    And you're successfully preventing non-gay people from being fully fledged members of society.

    Or are you really going to "answer" "only if they speak"? What you're showing or supporting isn't pride, nowhere close. At best you're being used.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @09:36AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @09:36AM (#26109)

      How far right wing does one have to consider "not a CEO" equivalent to "not a fully fledged member of society"?

      Nobody said he couldn't work at Mozilla. He could be the CFO. Nobody cares about a CFO. He could possibly even be a CTO, though the developers might care too much in that case.

      But the CEO is personifying the image of the company. By making him CEO, they were endorsing his views.

      Also, note that Mozilla is allowed to endorse those views, if that's the image they want. Just like Chick-Fil-A is allowed to. But in that case, they shouldn't expect us to buy/use their products.

      Chick-Fil-A was fine with that image. Mozilla was not. That's the difference.

      • (Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday April 04 2014, @04:01PM

        by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 04 2014, @04:01PM (#26254) Journal

        One doesn't have to be anything at all: what you're saying is that some jobs aren't allowed for $group, it doesn't matter if your $group is gays, non-gays, whites, blacks, catholics, protestants, atheists, communists, socialists, nazis, democrats, republicans, or anything else.

        Minorities won't win such fights so in effect this is minorities dismantling legal protection for minorities.

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