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The last few days have been tumultuous for the Mozilla, the most famous company for the browser Firefox. On the 24th of March Brendan Eich was appointed to the post of CEO (Executive Director), only to resign just 10 days later. Today the company seems to have taken a step in the right direction, naming Chris Beard as interim CEO and suggesting strong chances that he could land the job permanently.
Beard, until then CMO (Director of Marketing) from Mozilla, is pointed out as having played a decisive role in the company since the development of the Firefox 1.0. Mitchell Baker still spoke in official company blog: “Mozilla needs to act quickly and decisively. This is key for any leader at Mozilla, including our CEO, interim or otherwise. Chris' experience and vision are highly aligned with our goals.” Beard is also a partner at a venture capital investment firm specializing in technology companies, Greylock Partners.
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In 2008, Eich donated $1.000,00 in his own name to a campaign calling for age of a law that banned gay marriage in California and repealed existing ones. In 2012, a list of donations for the proposal was made public, with Eich's name and employer, Mozilla, right next to it. At the time, this caused such a serious commotion on Twitter that Eich was forced to provide a statement on the subject: “I don't insist that anyone agree with me on many things, including political matters, and I avoid putting my personal beliefs in the way of others in every way, whether on Mozilla or on the internet. I expect the same in return.” Despite everything, Eich managed to keep his post of CTO (Director of Technology) and the case eventually slipped into oblivion.
However, with his appointment as CEO, everything changed and Eich began to be bombarded by both the lgbt, and by Mozilla's own employees, who asked for his resignation. Some sites even proposed a boycott of the Firefox browser by their s. The OKCupid social networking site, for example, redirected all s who were using their browser to a page that told Eich's entire story.
The pressure was so great that Brendan Eich was forced to resign “voluntarily”. In notice issued on the occasion of the resignation, the company, recognized for preaching equality in access to information, apologized for the decision to put him in the position: “Mozilla is proud to be placed in a different standard and, in the last week, we did not honor that. We know why people are hurt and angry, and they're right: it's because we haven't been true to ourselves."
Sources: The Mozilla Blog, TechCrunch
