By Sarah McBri SAN FRANCISCO (Rters) - Mozilla Chief Executive Brendan Eich has stepped down, the pany said on Thursday, after an onle datg service urged a boytt of the pany's web browser bee of a donatn Eich ma to opponents of gay marriage. The software pany me unr fire for appotg Eich as CEO last month. In 2008, he gave money to oppose the legalizatn of gay marriage California, a hot-button issue pecially at a pany that boasts about s policy of clivens and diversy. "We didn't act like you'd expect Mozilla to act," wrote Mozilla Executive Chairwoman Mchell Baker a blog post.
Contents:
- MOZILLA CEO RIGNS, OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE DREW FIRE
- MOZILLA CEO RIGNS, OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE DREW FIRE
- EXCLIVE: MOZILLA CEO EICH SAYS GAY-MARRIAGE FIRTORM ULD HURT FIREFOX (Q&A)
- HOW YOU N PH BACK AGAST MOZILLA/FIREFOX'S GAY MARRIAGE THUGGERY
- GAY MARRIAGE
MOZILLA CEO RIGNS, OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE DREW FIRE
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By Sarah McBri SAN FRANCISCO (Rters) - Mozilla Chief Executive Brendan Eich has stepped down, the pany said on Thursday, after an onle datg service urged a boytt of the pany's web browser bee of a donatn Eich ma to opponents of gay marriage.
In 2008, he gave money to oppose the legalizatn of gay marriage California, a hot-button issue pecially at a pany that boasts about s policy of clivens and diversy.
MOZILLA CEO RIGNS, OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE DREW FIRE
Mozilla Chief Executive Brendan Eich has stepped down, the pany said on Thursday, after an onle datg service urged a boytt of the pany's web browser bee of a donatn Eich ma to opponents of gay marriage. * firefox gay marriage *
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EXCLIVE: MOZILLA CEO EICH SAYS GAY-MARRIAGE FIRTORM ULD HURT FIREFOX (Q&A)
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"Mozilla's new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay upl, " the msage said. SAN FRANCISCO (Rters) - Mozilla Chief Executive Brendan Eich has stepped down, the pany said on Thursday, after an onle datg service urged a boytt of the pany’s web browser bee of a donatn Eich ma to opponents of gay software pany me unr fire for appotg Eich as CEO last month. ”The next step for Mozilla’s learship “is still beg discsed, ” she add, wh more rmatn to e next gay activists appld the move, many the technology muny lamented the parture of Eich, who vented the programmg language Javascript and -found Mozilla.
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HOW YOU N PH BACK AGAST MOZILLA/FIREFOX'S GAY MARRIAGE THUGGERY
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PT: Mozilla announced Thursday that CEO Brendan Eich has rigned after ntroversy epted over his support for an anti-gay marriage ballot proposn California. Eich's donatn of $1, 000 to the Proposn 8 effort to ban gay marriage California, ma 2008 and unvered through public rerds 2012, beme a rallyg pot for a large and vol group that has fought for years for those marriage rights.
GAY MARRIAGE
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