Posted on 04/04/2014 8:15:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
STATEMENT FROM MOZILLA:
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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
We need to demand that cupid.com stop using “bigot” created javascript.
Hitler’s brown shirts were gay. What did you expect, tolerance?
I’m confused. How did they “force” him out?
Brendan was not free or equal was he?
Fight the Free Sh☭t Nation 
Thank God Jonas Salk or Louis Pasteur weren’t caught supporting traditional marriage.
RE: I’m confused. How did they “force” him out?
Companies do not want bad publicity. The dating site CupidOK refused to allow Mozilla browsers to access their site, and many other web based businesses were threatening to follow suite.
Remember, this company is based in gay land — SAN FRANCISCO.
The Mozilla board got alarmed at this development and all but withheld any support for him.
What else can the man do?
I let them know I am not sticking with them and why. I uninstalled this morning.
If we believe that there are vastly more supporters of traditional marriage than gay marriage in this country, then those of us who support traditional marriage and are tired of this constant FORCING of the gay agenda on our throats ought to band together and BOYCOTT Mozilla and tell others to boycott OKCupid. Make it a movement nationwide.
Let’s see which side wins in the end.
I installed both Opera and Torch to test them out. I see that OkStupid condones Opera so I will try Torch I guess. Can we not have one company that stands up for America? Do they all have to pander to queers and globalization crap?
RE: I let them know I am not sticking with them and why. I uninstalled this morning.
Good for you.
If we believe that there are vastly more supporters of traditional marriage than gay marriage in this country, then those of us who support traditional marriage and are tired of this constant FORCING of the gay agenda on our throats ought to band together and BOYCOTT Mozilla and tell others to boycott OKCupid. Make it a movement nationwide.
Let’s see which side wins in the end.
BTW, how did you let Mozilla know?
What else can the man do?
Depends on his spine.
Depends on the orders of his priorities.
Depends on what he has to lose.
I’ve been curious about Opera. May have to give it a try.
On their feedback page and support page. I thought about opening a support ticket so others would see it, but figured it would get pulled.
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