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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 Sunday April 06 2014, @06:54AM
You misused the word immutable. It is not immutable. Sexual orientation, at least in a statistically significant portion of the population, is very much fluid. This is self-evident.
It amazes me that so many of the same people who will claim that gender itself is fluid, will turn around and claim that "sexual orientation" is not.
You are also being deliberately obtuse. Marriage is religious ceremony, whether you like it or not. Been that way for thousands of years now. To claim otherwise is like Christians denying that they celebrate pagan holidays. It doesn't make it any less the case.
You also contradict yourself. You point out that the reason we forbid relatives marrying is to encourage genetic diversity, while claiming that marriage isn't about making babies it's about who you are "in love" with. But I love my sister and there is nothing gross about us having tax rights and visitation rights and all that good stuff. There isn't anything gross about us rooming together. There wouldn't even be anything gross about us adopting a child and raising him or her as aunt and uncle for instance. It would only be gross if I fucked her, and especially if I made babies with her...