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04-03-2014, 11:50 PM
Mozilla CEO Steps Down After Anti-Gay Marriage Controversy
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Brendan Eich has stepped down as CEO of Mozilla, a company he cofounded, following significant criticism for his earlier support of a legal measure banning gay marriage
"Brendan Eich has chosen to step down from his role as CEO," Mitchell Baker, executive chairwoman of Mozilla, wrote in a blog post (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/). "He’s made this decision for Mozilla and our community.
See also: OkCupid to Firefox Users: Switch Browsers, Support Gay Marriage (http://mashable.com/2014/03/31/okcupid-mozilla-brenda-eich/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Eich, a prominent programmer who previously created Javascript, took over as the **n-profit company's CEO on March 24. Shortly after, a number of Mozilla employees publicly urged (http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/mozilla-employees-to-brendan-eich-step-down/) Eich to step down from the role, in reaction to his financial support for Proposition 8, which sought to ban same-*** marriage in California in 2008. (Half the company's board also resigned (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/28/three-mozilla-board-members-resign-over-choice-of-new-ceo/) after his appointment, though Prop 8 was **t cited as the reason.) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/mozilla-ceo-steps-down/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Brendan Eich has stepped down as CEO of Mozilla, a company he cofounded, following significant criticism for his earlier support of a legal measure banning gay marriage
"Brendan Eich has chosen to step down from his role as CEO," Mitchell Baker, executive chairwoman of Mozilla, wrote in a blog post (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/). "He’s made this decision for Mozilla and our community.
See also: OkCupid to Firefox Users: Switch Browsers, Support Gay Marriage (http://mashable.com/2014/03/31/okcupid-mozilla-brenda-eich/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Eich, a prominent programmer who previously created Javascript, took over as the **n-profit company's CEO on March 24. Shortly after, a number of Mozilla employees publicly urged (http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/mozilla-employees-to-brendan-eich-step-down/) Eich to step down from the role, in reaction to his financial support for Proposition 8, which sought to ban same-*** marriage in California in 2008. (Half the company's board also resigned (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/28/three-mozilla-board-members-resign-over-choice-of-new-ceo/) after his appointment, though Prop 8 was **t cited as the reason.) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/mozilla-ceo-steps-down/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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