Posted on 04/04/2014 6:26:53 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
Under the heading “Brendan Eich steps down as CEO,” Mozilla has posted the following statement in the name of executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker. Eich has “stepped down” from his position at Mozilla days after his appointment, following the revelation that he contributed $1,000 to the campaign supporting the passage of Prop 8 in California six years ago. The Wall Street Journal covers the story here.
Baker’s statement is must reading, though it requires some translation. It is not exactly straightforward. Using the mandatory shibboleths, the statement refers to a corporate culture of “diversity and inclusiveness.” If you’ve read 1984, you can probably handle the translation without help from me:
Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it. We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it’s because we haven’t stayed true to ourselves.
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.
While painful, the events of the last week show exactly why we need the web. So all of us can engage freely in the tough conversations we need to make the world better.
We need to put our focus back on protecting that Web. And doing so in a way that will make you proud to support Mozilla.
What’s next for Mozilla’s leadership is still being discussed. We want to be open about where we are in deciding the future of the organization and will have more information next week. However, our mission will always be to make the Web more open so that humanity is stronger, more inclusive and more just: that’s what it means to protect the open Web.
We will emerge from this with a renewed understanding and humility — our large, global, and diverse community is what makes Mozilla special, and what will help us fulfill our mission. We are stronger with you involved.
Thank you for sticking with us.
Mitchell Baker, Executive Chairwoman
Safari is Apple and they too have the homosexual agenda.
Taking a quick look at the incorportation data and other info on their site including their 990s, I’d suggest he sue their combined panties off for an illegal termination.
BTW, this POS, the chair, pulls in over 700K a year.
Yet they are a “non-profit” and are looking for donations....what a joke.
We’re a non-profit organization that believes the web should be open, accessible, transparent, safe and—most of all—a force for the good of humanity.
At the heart of Mozilla is a global community with a shared mission—to build the Internet the world needs. Support Mozilla with a donation today—for a better web and a better world.
https://sendto.mozilla.org/page/contribute/EOYFR2013-newdefault?source=mozillaorg_footer
I use Safari because I have a Mac.
Who names their new tiny daughter Mitchell?
(s) The Phantom of Opera...
Never heard of it.
Someone who gave her the first name Winifred.
BTW, her hubby’s first name is Casey (Dunn). She did not even go for the hyphen marriage name.
They are on a roll. Amazing how they’ve managed to cow people.
Doesn't sound like just grounds for termination (and since it comes in the wake of political pressure on the company to replace him, I don't take it that his resignation is "voluntary").
Nothing criminal or unethical about his political contribution. He's been "pinklisted".
The historical academics, political science majors, and media will never speak out against this "witchhunt" purging as they did of KNOWN Communists (sometimes working in support, knowingly or unknowingly, of the KGB and Soviet Union).
Mitchell is a girl. Which may explain some things.
Lies. Damn lies.
Stalinists lie. ALWAYS.
I can feminize her name a bit
Mitch the B*.
Stick it up yours, Ms. Baker
You've chosen a side, now expect the blowback of your decision.
This is what "diversity training" (political re-education) is for in corporate America.
And it's already coming down that if you don't CELEBRATE alternative lifestyles, that is a passive rebuke.
You will learn to celebrate sin, comrade. Or else it's banishment to the gulags.
What is so good about Opera?
However, this only applies to views to which we agree and no other views will be tolerated. Political correctness reveals its ugly head.
That will never happen!
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