Pues no tomó mucho tiempo el escándalo que se volvió a destapar durante el fin de semana que en donde varios aliados, fanáticos y empleados de Mozilla han repudiado que el creador del Javascript fuera el nuevo jefe de Mozilla Foundation y aquí está el resultado.
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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
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Recordaran que mencionamos que Brendan Eich estaba en la mejor disposición de abandonar su silla de CEO de Mozilla, que apenas fue por poco tiempo y la razón fue el hecho que se le refrescó a la mente el hecho de que Eich protagonizó al directamente patrocinar la Propuesta 8 del Estado de California que buscaba eliminar el concepto de que parejas homosexuales pudieran ser reconocidos como parejas legitimas.
A pesar de que Eich reclamaba que no afectaría su trabajo sus creencias, lo cierto es que esto no detuvo su salida, donde ahora reportes de prensa indican que dentro de las filas mismas de la Junta Directiva, había también descontento y curiosamente Eich había dicho que son ellos los que le podían solicitar su renuncia.
Según anunciado en el Blog oficial, la decisión al final del camino la tomó Eich.
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