Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
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.
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