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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: 2) by metamonkey on Friday April 04 2014, @03:52PM
The purpose of state licensing of marriage is to facilitate state-mediated divorce.
90% of contract law involves arguing over whether or not a valid contract ever existed. The state gets dragged into divorce disputes because there are property and child custody issues at stake, and that's basically the point of government: settling property disputes without violence. Since the state is required to adjudicated these disputes, the family court system short-circuits the process and requires that people be licensed before entering the agreement so they can check the roles and make sure Bill isn't still married to Alice before he marries Sue, that everyone is of the legal age of consent, that no one is being coerced, etc.
The state has an interest in marriage because it is required to have interest in divorce. Really, that's all gays get when they win "the right to marry." They're really winning gay divorce.
Okay 3, 2, 1, let's jam.