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Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by return0 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:13PM (#7525303)
> We didn’t act like you’d expect Mozilla to act. We didn’t move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We’re sorry. We must do better.

So Mozilla has to "act" the way some people "expect them to act". There was not even a ballot, poll or evaluation of the man in the position. It was a pretty ridiculous move to avoid bad press. Talk about to sticking to values like meritocracy.

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Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by dethstar on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:20PM (#7525399)
It wasn't just bad press, someone here posted a link to a "biggish" organization in, I think, Australia where they were asking people to boycott Mozilla by not using it's software.
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Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by danudey on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:42PM (#7525743)
Also, OkCupid called them out on it extremely publicly.
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Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by JeremyMorgan on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:18PM (#7526203)
Yes, even though their employees have contributed far more.

http://pastebin.com/ekaFQXbE

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Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by yohui on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:23PM (#7526855)
Neither OkCupid nor Proposition 8 appear anywhere in that list: it records donations to the Republican Party or candidates from ordinary employees of OkCupid's corporate parent, IAC.

Also, almost all of the donations predate OkCupid's acquisition by IAC in February 2011.

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