Mozilla Appoints Former Marketing Head Interim CEO

Posted by Unknown on Monday April 14, 2014 @11:29AM from the but-chris-beard-hates-kittens dept.

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."

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Re: "Flamebait" mod .. by DTentilhao · 2014-04-14 12:19 · Score: 3, Funny

"Congress needs to establish a commission of inquiry to help us identify people who don't agree with gay marriage"

And we also need to identify people with no sense of humour ..