{"id":1900,"date":"2014-04-03T12:06:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2014-10-24T14:45:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T21:45:21","slug":"brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/2014\/04\/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/mission\/\">Mozilla<\/a> prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn\u2019t live up to it. We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it\u2019s because we haven\u2019t stayed true to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>We didn\u2019t act like you\u2019d expect Mozilla to act. We didn\u2019t move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We\u2019re sorry. We must do better.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Eich has chosen to step down from his role as CEO. He\u2019s made this decision for Mozilla and our community.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next for Mozilla\u2019s 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\u2019s what it means to protect the open Web.<\/p>\n<p>We will emerge from this with a renewed understanding and humility &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sticking with us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Baker, Executive Chairwoman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn\u2019t live up to it. We know why people are hurt and angry, and they &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/2014\/04\/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}