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Mozilla Appoints Former Marketing Head Interim CEO
itwbennett (1594911) writes "Following the contentious and ultimately failed appointment of Brendan Eich as CEO last month, the Mozilla Corporation has appointed Chris Beard to the board of directors and made him interim CEO. Beard starting working as chief marketing officer for Mozilla in 2004, and oversaw the launch of its current browser, Firefox, in 2005. Beard also managed the launches of Firefox on Android and the Firefox OS for mobile phones."
See the official announcement. Quoting: "We began exploring the idea of Chris joining the Board of Directors some months ago. Chris has been a Mozillian longer than most. He’s been actively involved with Mozilla since before we shipped Firefox 1.0, he’s guided and directed many of our innovative projects, and his vision and sense of Mozilla is equal to anyone’s. I have relied on his judgement and advice for nearly a decade. This is an excellent time for Chris to bring his understanding of Mozilla to the Board."
Marketing begins to run things.
Not to be "that guy" but I do kind of chuckle that there are connotations to the man's last name.
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
Congress needs to establish a commission of inquiry to help us identify people who don't agree with gay marriage, so they can be outed and ostracized. You know the routine: "Are you, or have you ever been, a conservative/orthodox/fundamentalist Christian, Muslim, or Jew?"
As we find these scumbags, we can work to deny them the right to start businesses in our cities like Rahm Emmanuel did in Chicago. Some of them are artisans: we can attempt to commission artistic works in conflict with their beliefs, and sue them into oblivion when they refuse. We can pressure them to resign from their jobs.
As recent Obama voters, it's not like we're huge hypocrites or anything. Please understand that the Democratic party is about democracy -- that's why we rejoice that California's popularly-voted Proposition 8 was overturned by a few activist judges. And we're about tolerance -- that's why we're trying to drive Christians, Muslims, and Jews out of public life by destroying their ability to hold jobs or participate in commerce.
I and 5 others deleted Mozilla and moved to Chrome. It felt weird after all these years to not have Firefox but we voted with our feet. It's not even a gay thing, it's a "we are sick of bullies and hypocrites" thing.
In one of the earlier Eich threads, I speculated that he was kicked out less because of his former gay marriage-related politics (he did, after all, indicate he wouldn't change Mozilla's LGBT-related policies) and more because the board wanted someone who could better monetize Mozilla. Don't forget, the board members that quit over Eich's appointment didn't quit due to the LGBT nonsense, they quit because they wanted someone "outside the organization who could provide a new business strategy."
With this new appointment, it sounds like I was right: Eich was kicked out not over the Twitter whine-storm, but due to internal politics that want to see Mozilla turned into a money-making "product."
Losing Eich is going to be the worst thing to ever happen to Mozilla, mark my words.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
One wonders whether Mr. Beard had to do a lie detector run to prove his loyalty the cause(s) du jour.
Now that it's become the norm for getting people fired for holding opposing views to yerself, how about organising a boycott of the following individuals: Chloe Valerlidi, Chris McAvoy, Christie Koehler, Jessica Klein, Jess Klein, John Bevan, Sydney Moyer (ref) or failing that having them locked in a room and made listen to Alex Jones for ever.
I just hope someone at Mozilla will really push the multi-threaded FF project this time and not close it down again like in the past, I am on the verge of switching browsers because the lack of multi-threading. More sites are doing more in the background and the lack of multi-threading is really slowing down the browser and really hurting the FF experience.
very little info on the web about this guy imo.
how many former microsofties are working for Mozilla now?
"Congress needs to establish a commission of inquiry to help us identify people who don't agree with gay marriage"
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And we also need to identify people with no sense of humour
What his opinion of Orange pants may be.
I myself am ardently against anything orange being worn as clothing, and if this man should believe in the hypocrisy that is orange pants, then he must be pushed out.
You distort facts to imply that they mean something other than what they mean, then act like you expect us to believe your "interpretation". For example, I don't really care what the Democratic party claims - I don't vote any party's line (nor do I support Obama generally speaking, except by comparison to some), and I look at voting records instead of claimed positions - but I doubt you'll find many on either side of the aisle who disagree with the claim that they support the constitution. The constitution explicitly gives the Judicial branch the ability to do what it did to Proposition 8 (overturn it on the basis of higher law). This is to prevent the tyranny of the majority over a disliked minority group, which is one of the obvious failures of a pure democracy. As for "activist judges", you do realize that 5 of the 9 current justices were Republican presidential nominations, right?
Oh, and lots of people who call themselves "orthodox" or "fundamentalist" members of the religions you listed are fine with gay marriage. *Your* view might be that this is inherently contradictory, but their view is that however unrighteous those people are is a matter between them and God but secular law should be fair to all, or that a God of love would not turn His back on somebody on account of who they love, or any of many other arguments. You will probably find many more such people like that than you will find people who believe that the wrathful or gluttonous are nearly so bad, and that (heterosexual) adulterers deserve death. As such, it is quite obvious that religious folk can go about their daily lives without trying to enforce their religious beliefs on others. If you personally cannot, that is a failure of you personally, not of society or even of religion.
Oh, and the bit about tolerance? You really didn't think that part through, did you... it's about creating a tolerant society, not about personally tolerating everything. You present a false dichotomy: tolerate everything including intolerance, or don't be "about tolerance". Try this thought on for size: "we advocate tolerance towards every individual's nature, but oppose those who choose to be intolerant of the nature of others." It may help some people to think of it as advocating tolerance towards the ways in which God created us, and opposing those who are intolerant of some of God's creations. After all, sin is supposed to be about (making the wrong) choice, right? Are we not innocent and pure, until we choose to be otherwise? Well, religious belief is a choice. Sexual orientation is not.
Finally, there's the fact that you cite Fox News, which is just stupid around here. Even assuming that the story was both accurate and unbiased (having read both sides, Fox's account is generally the first but far from the second), that's just asking for trouble. The stories were widely reported; you can find better sources than that.
For the first story, Emmanuel is, to the best of my knowledge (though IANAL), not allowed to deny or revoke business licenses on the grounds of an implied intention to discriminate; an actual act of discrimination or at least a policy requiring it would be required first.
For the second story, that's straightforward: if you run a business open to the public, you are not permitted to discriminate against certain classes of people and refuse them service. This has probably been law since before you were born, in the case of racial discrimination (incidentally, at least one religion in the US held that black skin was the "mark of Cain" and thus they were justified in refusing to interact with them) and for that matter in the case of religion (which, unlike skin color or sexual orientation, is a matter of choice) or several other classifications. Oregon had simply expanded the list of classes against which a public business may not discriminate to include sexual orientation. If "Sweet Cakes by Melissa" had in fact been a Christian bakery - that is, a religious entity only open to Christians - they would probably have won thei
There's no place I could be, since I've found Serenity...
Mozilla makes a browser? Really? Oh you mean that one that used to be fast and had great plugins but now updates itself with more bloat every few days and kills the plugins? Yeah, abandoned that mess. Now that I know they are fascist pigs and do not support the free speech rights of employees I will stay away.
Not going to use any Mozilla any more. No more FireFox(went to maxthon) and no more Thunderbird. His beliefs are not relevant to job performance unless said beliefs impact on the bottom line.
Now, I shall wait for all the haters to rip on me.
Mozilla has given fresh fuel to the movement that so called "Board of Directors" Governance is Irrelevant and evokes Illegalities.
What do the "Board of Governors" at Corporations and Universities do ?
Answer: Try to figure out the prettiest girl in the Mail Room to butt fuck and get the "company" to pay for it at a very expensive 5-Star Hotel !
This idiocy has got to end and soon !
Liberal social justice warriors destroy everything they touch. Gnome and Mozilla can go fuck themselves.
They cancelled this policy [nytimes.com] almost immediately after it was brought to light.
Here's the thing: the data mining apparatus and amount of data entry required to get to this point must be enormous. Finding all of the information required to get to the point of issuing seizures of refunds would require complete integration of all SSI payment history, all tax payment history, family histories, movement pattern tracking, etc.
There might even be a tie in to NSA/"not-TIA" to enable this, since the scope is so large. They probably started putting out bids for the work shortly after the law changed in 2008 and have only recently yielded results.
It's not going to be turned off just like that.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
I removed Firefox off my personal and work computers to protest the treatment of Eich. I have found lots of better browsers, and so the decision is looking even better in hindsight.
What are you replying to?
But what are his views on homosexual marriage? It's of utmost importance that he has the correct opinion on this matter, you know?
You cannot both honestly and intelligently post as you did. You either are ignorant of the facts and just posting Democrat/Progressive talking points, or you are being dishonest; this has been exposed repeatedly here on Slashdot, but you dishonest trolls just never give up.
First, this was a local Fox affiliate NOT the Fox news network... so by your Progressive standards apparently NBC is responsible for everything any affiliate does anyhwere in the nation.
Second, this was a labor/personnel lawsuit NOT a lawsuit about the truth of any Fox reporting. Persons fired by the Fox station filed a lawsuit claiming they were wrongly fired for refusing to lie in a story. Neither the Juries nor the courts ruled that Fox HAD indeed lied. In effect, Fox argued that the suit was not valid because even if they HAD lied, they'd have been in violation of their own policies but not in violation of any law and that the accusation that the firing was involved with lies was not relevant. Fox simply pointed out that NO network (including ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, PBS, etc) is subject to a law requiring truth. Having pointed this FACT out, Fox went on to win the lawsuit.
The continual stream of dishonesty by Fox-hating Progressives is both pitiful, and a sign that they are fearful that too many people are listening to the only news outlet in the USA that is not in the tank for Obama.
and probably out of ignorance.
Hitler's relationship with gays was...... complicated
When he was not yet in power and needed his street thugs (the SA), Hitler and friends recruited quite a few homosexuals (precisely because they tended to have non-traditional moral attitudes). After Hitler attained power and controlled all the official government power, the LAST thing he wanted was a bunch of non-government street thugs running around..... so he had them massacred (study the "Night of the long knives" in depth (not just on wikipedia)) and he avoided upsetting the public by letting it be known that some of them, including their leader Ernst Rohm, were homosexual (something most people were repelled by in the 1930s and 1940s)
Hitler got to use homosexuality both ways (supported by gays on the way up, supported by the public when he eliminated them later) in a way only one other politician has mastered so well. [BEGIN CRITICAL DISCLAIMER] I am NOT asserting Obama is ANYTHING like Hitler [END CRITICAL DISCLAIMER] Obama is the only other politician to have mastered this particular duplicity relative to gays (I am ONLY commenting on extreme political skill/deftness) having campaigned successfully for the support of many traditional middle-class Americans in 2008 by insisting he was opposed to gay marriage, and then after being in office by using the issue as a wedge to attack his opponents (who hold the very view HE was elected with) as evil bigots.
her name is Robyn "Stormy" Peters
http://stormyscorner.com/
Bugger off.
Sideslash - either trolling or a bigoted idiot no better than Hitler or his brain dead, hateful SS. Yeah, seriously. It's not cool to start prosecuting people based on their religious beliefs and political ideologies.
Go to images.google.com - search for eisatz or einsatzgruppen. Then, continue to make jokes if you want. You people make me sick.
It seems Mozilla already theirs, but it seems to work better, because they hung Eich in the public square without a trial, and put him on display, for all to see. And, Eich chose to step down, rather than make a fight of it. He could 'ave just let those that complained about him go, and let them fight on their own -- rather than being persecuted, rather than being kicked to the curb.
I clicked on the moderation widget to mod you up. I then changed my mind, and clicked elsewhere to close the moderation list.
Then I used the keyboard down arrow to scroll the page... which slashdot interpreted as a a moderation.
This is clearly a bug in Slashdot. Sorry.