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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: 1) by Grishnakh on Friday April 04 2014, @02:57PM
No, it's legally permissible to do it any time. It's called "freedom of association". It should be fairly obvious that this necessarily leads to the phenomenon whereby people who vocalize unpopular opinions themselves become unpopular, and people don't want to associate with them. Yes, that means that if you say something unpopular, will may suffer negative consequences. That's the way it works in a place with freedom of speech and freedom of association. You can say whatever idiotic crap you want, and I'm free to take my business elsewhere, criticize you, call you a bigot or other names, call for your resignation or firing, etc.
It's not just "politically correct" stuff; it entirely varies by location and context. Spouting anti-LGBT stuff in the liberal cities of California is not going to win you many friends there. Similarly, spouting pro-LGBT messages in rural Mississippi or Nebraska isn't likely to win you many friends there either. If Eich had taken a position as CEO of some oil pipeline company in Missouri, he probably wouldn't have had any trouble. Instead, he tried to take a top position in Mountain View, California, right next to San Francisco which is famous for being a LGBT hotspot and ultra-liberal, at a company that promises in its mission statement to be non-discriminatory and seems to take that seriously. The only way he could have screwed up worse is if he had tried to take an executive position at HuffPost or Starbucks, as those places would have kicked him out within minutes of finding out about his public political stance on LGBT.