{"id":186208,"date":"2014-04-03T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/03\/mozilla-cuts-its-losses\/"},"modified":"2014-04-03T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T23:03:00","slug":"mozilla-cuts-its-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/03\/mozilla-cuts-its-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Cuts Its Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2014\/04\/brendan-eich-resigns-as-mozilla-corporation-ceo\/\">Brendan Eich is out as Mozilla Corporation CEO<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Less than two weeks after drawing controversy over his appointment as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, Brendan Eich has resigned from the position.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a post at Mozilla&#8217;s official blog, executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker confirmed the news with an unequivocal apology on the company&#8217;s behalf. &#8220;Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn\u2019t live up to it,&#8221; Baker wrote. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The action comes days after dating site OKCupid became the most vocal opponent of Eich&#8217;s hiring. Mozilla offered repeated statements about LGBT inclusivity within the company over the past two weeks, but those never came with a specific response from Eich about his thousands of dollars of donations in support of Proposition 8, a California ballot measure that sought to ban gay marriage in the state.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eich&#8217;s bigotry has been an issue before, and for some reason known only to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, they decided to make him the face of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>It was further compounded when Eich <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/when-someone-defines-tolerance-as.html\">refused to offer anything vaguely resembling a sincere apology<\/a>, and instead offered platitudes about how tolerant people needed to validate his bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let this door hit your ass on the way out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Eich is out as Mozilla Corporation CEO: Less than two weeks after drawing controversy over his appointment as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, Brendan Eich has resigned from the position.In a post at Mozilla&#8217;s official blog, executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker confirmed the news with an unequivocal apology on the company&#8217;s behalf. &#8220;Mozilla prides itself &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,971,1051,997,1030,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-civil-rights","category-hypocrisy","category-internet","category-lgbtq","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}