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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
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. * firefox gay marriage *
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.
While gay activists appld the move, many the technology muny lamented the parture of Eich, who vented the programmg language Javascript and -found Mozilla. Eich donated $1, 000 2008 support of California's Proposn 8, which banned gay marriage the state until was stck down by the Supreme Court June. 2 Web browser namg a gay marriage opponent as chief executive.
"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.
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 *
“Brendan Eich is a good iend of 20 years, and has ma a profound ntributn to the Web and to the entire world, ” venture palist Marc Andresen donated $1, 000 2008 support of California’s Proposn 8, which banned gay marriage the state until was stck down by the Supreme Court rignatn me days after, the popular onle datg se, lled for a boytt of Mozilla Firefox to prott the world’s No. 2 Web browser namg a gay marriage opponent as chief Monday, OkCupid sent a msage to visors who accsed the webse through Firefox, suggtg they e browsers such as Microsoft Corp’s Inter Explorer or Google Inc’s Chrome.
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.
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.
Now, his first terview on the subject, Eich is rpondg wh a msage that Mozilla is at s re clive -- not jt of gay-marriage supporters but also of people like him or gay-marriage opponents Indonia who also are part of the Mozilla e. In a reversal, Firefox has bee a pot of leverage a very different fight for gay-marriage rights. Though Eich ref to discs his own beliefs explicly or say whether they've changed, he disagreed wh the assertn that beg opposed to gay-marriage rights is equivalent to beg sexist or racist, and he said polil and relig speech is still protected.
HOW YOU N PH BACK AGAST MOZILLA/FIREFOX'S GAY MARRIAGE THUGGERY
Shankland: Is a polil firtorm about gay-marriage rights how you expected to start your new reer as a CEO? I tend to be even more so as CEO bee I agree there's an obligatn to reach out to people who for whatever reason are msage do you want to send to those who are askg for your rignatn or for you to rent your earlier opposn to gay marriage?
GAY MARRIAGE
I saw that iends' ey, [iends] who are LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenred].
Is there some pot at which the damage that is actually done to Mozilla and Firefox means would be worth for you to make a public statement directly support of gay marriage rights, or to rign? I know there are people who disagree on many thgs, but I'm fightg shoulr to shoulr whether you're gay or straight, whether you're married or sgle, whether you're nservative or liberal, young or old, wherever you are the world. The threat we're facg isn't to me or my reputatn, 's to haven't really explicly laid out, so I'll jt ask you: how do you feel gay-marriage rights?
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