Mozilla Cuts Its Losses

Brendan Eich is out as Mozilla Corporation CEO:

Less than two weeks after drawing controversy over his appointment as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, Brendan Eich has resigned from the position.

In a post at Mozilla's official blog, executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker confirmed the news with an unequivocal apology on the company's behalf. "Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it," Baker wrote. "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."

The action comes days after dating site OKCupid became the most vocal opponent of Eich's hiring. Mozilla offered repeated statements about LGBT inclusivity within the company over the past two weeks, but those never came with a specific response from Eich about his thousands of dollars of donations in support of Proposition 8, a California ballot measure that sought to ban gay marriage in the state.

Eich's bigotry has been an issue before, and for some reason known only to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, they decided to make him the face of the organization.

It was further compounded when Eich refused to offer anything vaguely resembling a sincere apology, and instead offered platitudes about how tolerant people needed to validate his bigotry.

Don't let this door hit your ass on the way out.