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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @02:41AM
Open Source was never about being politically correct. Why is it now?
(Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday April 04 2014, @07:24AM
It isn't. Some might think so and some certainly try to make it so but it isn't and Mozilla just pushed their junk in everyones face yet again (the trademark debacle, Google stuff, and FBI Tor thing are a few other examples from the recent past that rightly or wrongly stick to them). Hopefully that's good for the competition including all the forks. If anything F/OSS along with IT in general has always been known for being much less politically correct than normal. Personally I'm more laid-back about it all than just about anyone I can think of anecdotally from life experience both off and on the net but I don't doubt some wouldn't believe that, well they would be in for more than a handful of shocks.
So this has nothing to do with open source or free/libre source and everything (no matter how loony it sounds) to do with the slow suicide of western civilization. Every lesson learnt since during the enlightenment is actively being dismantled. When people can't navigate simple stuff like this without biting their own ass while thinking they biting "the enemy" they not only have no chance against the larger more serious challenges like the whole NSA disaster but would also be active participants in making all of those challenges even harder if possible.
tl;dr: It isn't, these are the kind of people who trade with Feinstein & co and think they come out on top after sucking her off. Obscene? Of course it is.
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